Delhi HC refuses stay on ‘Trial By Fire’, web show on Uphaar tragedy releases on Netflix

A major relief for the makers ‘Trail By Fire’. The Delhi High Court has rejected real estate baron Sushil Ansal’s plea seeking a stay on the Netflix web show, which is based on 1997 Uphaar Cinema tragedy.

Ansal is one of the accused in the tragedy that led to the death of 59 people in 1997.
The series stars Abhay Deol and Rajshri Deshpande.

In his plea, Sushil had sought a permanent and mandatory injunction restraining the production company and others from releasing the film.

His lawyer, senior advocate Siddharth Aggarwal submitted that Sushil was held guilty under Section 304A of IPC (causing death by negligence), and not murder. He added that the series labels him as a 'murderer', and that the ‘book is grossly defamatory and wilfully false’.
Sushil also sought restraint of further publication and circulation of the book, published by Penguin Random House Ltd.

The web show is based on the book ‘Trial By Fire: The Tragic Tale of the Uphaar Fire Tragedy’ that was written by Neelam Krishnamoorthy and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy.

Justice Yashwant Varma rejected Sushil Ansal’s plea, saying that the book was published in 2016 and he never sought action against it for so many years. The court also noted that it had no time to view the web series and granting injunctive reliefs before it is viewed would be inappropriate, according to a Live Law report.

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