: Eid-eve jolt: US NRI seeks Rs 295 cr as libel case costs from Salman Khan #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment Mumbai: In a mega jolt on the eve of Ramzan Eid, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan has been slapped

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Eid-eve jolt: US NRI seeks Rs 295 cr as libel case costs from Salman Khan #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
Mumbai: In a mega jolt on the eve of Ramzan Eid, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan has been slapped with a legal notice demanding a staggering Rs 295 crore as costs in cause by his neighbour Ketan R. Kakkad, a retired NRI from the USA.
According to sources, the notice has been sent by Kakkad through the actors team, DSK Legal among the top-notch law firms in the country, with a weeks time to comply.
It is over a week now but there has been no response from them. We shall pursue the matter till its logical end as per the honourable court verdict, a grim Kakkad confirmed, when queried by IANS.
The development came soon after the Bombay City Civil Court Judge A. H. Laddhads order in a notice of motion for interim reliefs, arising in a defamation suit filed by Khan against Kakkad.
In the March 23 order, Judge Laddhad had virtually rejected all contentions in Khans plea for an interim gag order against Kakkad, and awarded the latter costs in cause while disposing off the matter, spelling a setback for the actor.
Besides Kakkad, his next door neighbour at the Panvel (Raigad) farmhouse, Khan had dragged social media giants like Google, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, Sandeep Phogat, Paras Bhat and Ujjwal Narain, as parties, and it became one of the most avidly followed cases this year.
Among other things, the plaintiff (Khan) sought directions for a comprehensive order restraining the defendants (Kakkad, et al) from defaming the actor and his Panvel farmhouse on all public domains and social media platforms.
After several days of heated arguments on both sides with strong counters to DSK Legal battery by Kakkads formidable team comprising Y. P. Singh, Abha Singh and Aditya Pratap Judge Laddhad ruled in favour of the defendants, stunning the plaintiffs.
In the demand for Rs 295 crore costs in cause, Kakkad has recounted how he and his wife Anita Kakkad, a senior citizen NRI couple from the US, were systematically harassed, tortured, prevented from entering their plot of land adjoining Khans sprawling Arpita Farms in Raigad for the past many years.
On the other side, Salman Khan is a very wealthy, world-famous and politically extremely powerful personality, who through his team spared no efforts to bring us to the knees. All with the final aim to somehow illegally grab our plots of land in Raigad and drive us out of India forever, Kakkad pointed out.
However, Kakkad said it was only due to the blessings of the tiny eco-friendly Lord Ganesha Temple on his plot that they survived and achieved an unparalleled legal victory in March, proving more than a match for the Dabangg superstar.
Justifying the demand towards his costs in cause, Kakkad claimed that as per US standards in similar litigation, Rs 295 crore is peanuts, and nothing for a person of the stature of the ill-advised Khan.

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