Bombay HC issues notice to Salman Khan seeking his response on KRK’s plea against order restraining him from commenting on actor

Actor Salman Khan has been asked to respond to Kamaal R Khan's plea by the Bombay High Court on a defamation case filed by the actor against KRK. The court issued a notice to the Bollywood actor, seeking his reply on the self-proclaimed film critic's plea urging for quashing a lower court's interim order restraining him from making any comments on the actor, his movies, or his companies. KRK in his plea said a film viewer cannot be prohibited from making comments about a film or its characters. KRK's plea further stated that the lower court should not have passed such a blanket order, and while the court could restrain him from making personal comments against Salman Khan, it cannot prohibit him from making fair criticism of the actor's films. A single bench presided over by Justice A S Gadkari issued notices to Salman Khan, his production company Salman Khan Ventures, and several social media intermediaries seeking their response to Kamaal R Khan's plea. KRK challenged a Mumbai court's interim order issued in June this year on a defamation suit filed by Salman Khan against the former over his comments on the film 'Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai' and some of his other videos and commentary. At that time, KRK was restrained by the court from posting or publishing any defamatory content about the actor and anything related to him, until the final order in the defamation case. If you follow any pages handled by KRK, you'd know that he is known to court controversy on a regular basis. He has been taken to court or chided and criticised many times by several celebrities, including Richa Chadha, and Vikram Bhatt. Bhatt had earlier slammed a defamation case against KRK for allegedly circulating false and derogatory stories.