In his suit, filed through advocates Gautam Khazanchi, Kumar Vaibhaw, Somaya Gupta and Sukanya Joshi, Ansal has said that series is defamatory and infringes on his right to privacy.
The suit states that Ansal has been punished both legally and socially for his association with Uphaar Tragedy and his family has also suffered extensively.
He said that he has apologised to the victims’ families for the tragedy and has expressed deep remorse but he ought not to be made perpetually liable to be rebuked by the public time and again especially after having served the sentence.
Ansal argued that his portrayal in the trailer and teaser of the Netflix series has the propensity to cause further immense and irreparable harm to his reputation and right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
“The Plaintiff states that the release of the impugned series will lead to further prejudice and harm to the Plaintiff and will be in grave breach of the Plaintiff’s fundamental rights, inter alia, to privacy as envisaged by the Constitution of India,” he has said.
Source: Barandbench
