Bombay high court grants Nikhil Dwivedi injunction against Kamaal R Khan's defamatory tweets

The Bombay high court has granted an injunction to producer Nikhil Dwivedi, preventing Kamaal R Khan from posting anything about the actor-producer directly or indirectly on social media.

In January, Dwivedi had objected to Khan's tweets and filed a suit against his allegedly defamatory statements.

In a statement, Dwivedi's lawyer, Kartikeya Desai, said, "Our client, Mr Nikhil Dwivedi, an actor producer, has filed a lawsuit against Mr Kamaal R Khan for the slanderous tweets and YouTube videos which were posted by Mr Kamaal R Khan wherein he had made defamatory statements and also baseless allegations against Mr Dwivedi.

"The series of tweets and other posts were categorically reproduced in the said suit filed by Mr Dwivedi. The honourable court read through the statements made by Mr Kamaal R Khan and recorded that prima facie case has been made out against him and granted ad-interim relief against Mr Kamaal R Khan and the other defendents whereby they are restrained from publishing defamatory statements as described in the plaint and/or any other statement (whether written, printed, audio or video) containing the same or similar allegations (as included in the said acts of defamation) against the plaintiff. Any such act hereon will be treated as contempt of the honourable court.”

Dwivedi was represented by senior counsel Veerendra Tulzapurkar along with Rohan Kelkar, Desai and Asadali Mazgaonwala.

Khan has previously been pulled up for his tweets and behaviour on social media several times. In October 2020, Richa Chadha had filed a defamation suit against him. In May 2020, a police complaint was filed against him for his tweets against the late Rishi Kapoor and the late Irrfan Khan. In July 2019, writer Kanika Dhillon had called him out for his 'sexist' tweets.

Dwivedi is the third industry person after Aamir Khan and Vikram Bhatt to decide to take on KRK for posting defamatory content and baseless allegations on social media.