By
KOMAL NAHTA

The Bombay high court on June 2 refused to direct OTT platform Netflix to take down its web series Scoop, thereby giving no interim relief to jailed underworld gangster Chhota Rajan. The series, directed by Hansal Mehta, was released the same day. “They have published it. We’ll see on the next date,” said Justice Shivkumar Dighe when senior advocate Mihir Desai, for Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan, urged that the series be pulled down.

Scoop is based on the book, ‘Behind Bars In Byculla: My Days In Prison’ by former journalist Jigna Vora who was acquitted in the 2011 killing of fellow crime reporter J. Dey. Rajan and nine others were convicted in the case.

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