Overview
- A bench of Justices P. S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe set aside the June 7, 2018 summons by the Hazaribagh CJM and the Jharkhand High Court’s April 22, 2025 refusal to quash, closing the criminal case.
- The proceedings were termed "manifestly frivolous and vexatious," with the summoning order faulted as mechanical and issued without a prima facie comparison of the works.
- The Screen Writers Association’s dispute panel had on February 24, 2018 found no similarity between the film and the complainant’s script.
- Court records note Ghosh registered the synopsis and successive drafts in 2012–2013, predating complainant Umesh Prasad Mehta’s 2015 registration of his script titled Sabak.
- The ruling reiterates that magistrates must record satisfaction based on material before issuing process and that criminal law should not be a default route for intellectual property disputes.