The Dindoshi (Bombay) sessions court on December 31, 2021 dismissed an appeal filed by Kangana Ranaut against the order of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate court refusing to transfer the proceedings to another court in a complaint filed against her by veteran Javed Akhtar for alleged criminal defamation.
Akhtar had filed the defamation complaint against the actress in November 2020 for allegedly making defamatory and baseless comments against him in a television interview earlier that year in the context of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Kangana had called Javed Akhtar, part of a gang of Bollywood.
Ranaut had moved the transfer plea alleging that she did not have faith in the 10th court. She stated that the court was insisting on her personal appearance without any sufficient reason, which could have justified her compelling appearance in the case, involving a bailable, non-cognisable and compoundable offence.