Its High Court of Karnataka has ordered Netflix Entertainment Services India LLP to stop streaming, disseminating, telecasting, or otherwise making the material of the documentary series “Crime Stories: India Detectives” first episode “A Murdered Mother” on its platform.
On October 1, Justice B.M. Shyam Prasad issued the interim order in response to a plea submitted by Sridhar Rao S., a 28-year-old city resident and alleged co-accused in the murder of 54-year-old Nirmala Chandrashekar, which was reported at the K.R. Puram police station in February last year.
The first episode of this series, according to the petition, has content comprising pictures of the police investigation into the petitioner and another accused, Amrutha Chandrashekar.
Amrutha was accused of murdering her mother and attempting to murder her brother before fleeing to Andaman and Nicobar with the petitioner, who picked her up from her home in the city early on February 2, 2020, to take a flight to Port Blair.
The petition claims that Netflix is “streaming the petitioner’s tape, made by Minnow Films Ltd, on his custody interrogations, custodial interview, and the disparaging comment made by police throughout the inquiry in a way that is against the law.”
The petition claims that the petitioner is innocent, claiming that even Amrutha stated in his police statement that he was not involved in the crime, and that the incident has caused “a real and imminent threat of prejudice to the fairness of the trial and the petitioner’s rights under Article 21 of the Constitution, besides affecting his privacy.”
