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The intervention from a local court of law in Hyderabad had given breather to the Satyam scam kingpin Ramalinga Raju to appear on the screen in the controversial “Bad Boy Billionaires” show.
Netflix today released three out of four episodes of the controversial documentary series “Bad Boy Billionaires” without a chapter on Ramalinga Raju. Episodes on liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Sahara India Group chief Subrata Roy have been released.
The series was scheduled to be released on September 2, but was embroiled in a legal tussle after subjects Subrata Roy, B Ramalinga Raju and Mehul Choksi moved court seeking a stay on the release. The web series was promoted by Netflix as an “investigative documentary series” that explores the alleged greed, fraud and corruption that built up and brought down India’s most infamous tycoons.
Subrata Roy had also filed a plea in a Bihar court asserting that the series aimed to malign his public image. The court reportedly vacated the stay on the documentary’s release on Saturday, after which the series was released.
The Delhi High Court had earlier refused to grant relief to Mehul Choksi who had filed a plea against the documentary being released and asked for a pre-screening of the documentary. Choksi, who is exercising to cover up Nirav’s episode, has challenged the decision that would come up for hearing on October 13.
Ramalinga Raju is the only “star” to heave a sigh of relief. A Hyderabad local civil court had issued an interim stay restraining Netflix from airing the series.
