Last week, a local court in Bihar’s Araria district passed an interim stay order on the
broadcasting of Netflix documentary ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’, following a petition
from Sahara chief Subrata Roy. The documentary was scheduled to be released on
September 2.

According to
reports, in the coming week, Netflix is likely to move the Supreme Court in
this regard.

The trailer
of the documentary has been removed from the streaming platform, Netflix.
However, it is still available on YouTube.

The Delhi
High Court had dismissed a plea by Mehul Choksi, an accused in the nearly USD 2
billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, to conduct pre-screening of the
documentary.

Justice
Navin Chawla, after hearing the matter for over two hours, declined to grant
relief to Choksi saying a writ petition for enforcement of a private right
cannot be maintainable. The court said his remedy lies in a civil suit and
granted him the liberty to raise the issue in a civil suit.

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Choksi, the promoter of Gitanjali Gems, and his nephew Nirav Modi are the main accused in
the Rs 13,500 crore PNB fraud case. He left the country last year and was
granted citizenship by Antigua and Barbuda.

The
documentary, ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’ is described on the Netflix platform as,
“This investigative docuseries explores the greed, fraud, and corruption that
built-up – and ultimately brought down – India’s most infamous tycoons”.