Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt couldn’t be examined in copyright case
Noted film director Mahesh Bhatt along with another producer today appeared before a Delhi court for recording their deposition in a 13-year-old copyright infringement case but could not be examined as the regular presiding officer was on leave.
Bhatt as well as Vijay Arya, producer Surendra Mohan Productions, Mumbai were called as witnesses in a case, which was registered at police station Keshav Puram on June 4, 1993 following the complaint of Delhi-based Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.
Link Metropolitan Magistrate S S Rathi discharged both of them as unexamined and posted the matter for January 18, 2007.
Chargesheet was filed against Vijay of Lawrence Road and Dilip Mallik of Shakti Vihar here under Keshav Puram police station in North-West Delhi on March 22, 1994 for the various offences including the production of duplicate CDs, cassettes and records of the Hindi flims.
According to the chargesheet, raids were coducted at various places here, in which a number of inlay cards of ‘T-series’- a trademark of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd were seized.
Both Vijay and Mallik, who were then apprehended, are facing trial in the case.
— PTI
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