The Delhi High Court today dismissed a defamation suit filed by IRS officer Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede against Netflix series “Ba***ds of Bollywood”, holding that it lacked territorial jurisdiction to entertain the plea. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav held that an online defamation suit is maintainable only before a court within whose jurisdiction the defendant is located or where the reputational harm has occurred. On the other hand, Netflix contended that RPG Media was impleaded by Wankhede solely to forum shop and circumvent the established principles on jurisdiction. The counsel appearing for RPG Media submitted that the entity impleaded in the suit as “RPSG Lifestyle Media Pvt. 6 (RPG Media) neither appears to be proper nor necessary.