Mumbai, Sept 08: Mumbai High Court today restrained police from arresting film-maker Rakesh Roshan, his actor-son Hritik and father-in-law J Omprakash in cases of alleged cheating till September 22 and deferred their plea seeking to quash a lower court order which directed cops to probe these cases. Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice V M Kanade took on record the reply filed by Jayantilal Gada of M/S popular entertainment network who has filed six cases against Rakesh Roshan, Hritik and J Omprakash for alleged cheating. Gada prayed that the High Court had no jurisdiction to hear this matter under Article 226 of the constitution. Four petitions filed by Roshans and two petitions filed by J Omprakash would be heard together on September 22.

Gada alleged Roshans and J Omprakash had committed breach of agreements with regard to merchandising of films.

Earlier, the High Court had suggested the parties should go for an out-of-court settlement. Accordingly, they met on August six but could not work out a compromise and decided to follow the legal course. Roshans were represented by lawyer Dipesh Mehta while Ashok Sarogi appeared for Gada.


Roshans had entered into agreements with m/s popular entertainment network for merchandising their films, including "Kaho Na Pyar Hai."

J Omprakash also entered into agreements with the same company for marketing films made by him. However, dispute arose over payments.

Bureau Report