Sahara Group Mulls Legal Action Against Makers Of Upcoming Series 'Scam 2010 - The Subrata Roy Saga'

The series is based on one of the India's most controversial financial scandals which resulted in the arrest of Roy in 2014 following accusations ranging from chit-fund manipulations to fake investors

The Sahara Group is considering legal action against the makers of the upcoming series, ‘Scam 2010 - The Subrata Roy Saga’, as the group expressed their disdain for the third installment in the ‘Scam’ series. 

The upcoming show will follow ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’ and ‘Scam 2003: The Telgi Story’ to become the third part of the Hansal Mehta’s ‘Scam’ series. The show will be available for streaming on Sony LIV and has already attracted the attention of the Sahara Group before its release. 

After the series’ announcement by the director on Thursday, Sahara India issued a statement and said, “An abusive and grossly condemnable act has been demonstrated by the makers of 'Scam' to achieve cheap and wide publicity, by announcing to unveil, 'Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga'. Sahara India Pariwar condemns such acts of all the individuals and parties involved and shall resist to their offending behaviour. In this regard, the aggrieved members are seeking advice to take suitable legal action against the producer, director, and all those who are involved in making the illegal portrayal,” reported PTI.

The entity stated that the dispute between SEBI and Sahara remains pending before the apex court and attempts of influencing the case matter ‘shall attract contempt of Court, besides such acts amount to criminality’. 

The statement claimed, “Sahara India Pariwar has never been involved in any chit fund activity and even the Sahara-SEBI issue was a dispute on the Sebi's jurisdiction on certain bonds issued by the group.”

Notably, the series will talk about one of the country’s most controversial financial scandals which resulted in the arrest of Roy in 2014 following accusations ranging from chit-fund manipulations to fake investors. 

“In the garb of a right of free speech and expression, no one can be allowed to undermine the goodwill and reputation of a person, who is not available to defend himself. The use of the word 'scam' in the title of the so-called web-series and linking it to Sahara seems prima-facie defamatory, and tends to lower down the image and reputation of Saharasri Ji and Sahara India Pariwar,” the official statement read.

Roy passed away in November last year after suffering from a prolonged illness at the age of 75.