New Delhi: The makers of the online series 'Show Stopper,' including director-producer Manish Harishankar, are facing legal action from actor Digangana Suryavanshi, who has accused them of money fraud and deceitful activities. In an effort to defend herself, Digangana Suryavanshi is taking legal action after disputing these claims.
Digangana Suryavanshi has taken legal action by sending a defamation notice and filing a police complaint, based on various sections of the Indian Penal Code, such as 420 for cheating, 406 for criminal breach of trust, 509 for words, gestures, or acts intended to insult a woman's modesty, 499 for defamation, 500 for punishment for defamation, 503 for criminal intimidation, 506 for punishment for criminal intimidation, 63 for copyright offences, 199 for false statements made in declarations that are legally admissible as evidence, and 211 for false charges of offences made with the intent to harm.
Manish Harishankar has accused Suryavanshi of "breach of trust" and "extortion." She faces accusations of deceit and breach of trust from MH Films, the production firm responsible for ‘Show Stopper’. The business claims that she made false claims about star Akshay Kumar and his organisation being the project's sponsors.
Digangana broke her silence on this by stating, “Manish’s narrative is his twisted imagination, it’s all untrue. A cheap publicity stunt of simply dragging names, clearly he’s trying to find a bakra so he can bail out from not being able to sell the show even after more than two years. I don’t want to waste any more time explaining further, I’ve already wasted too much time trying to help him”.
Statement Issued by Digangana Suryavanshi’s Lawyer
Rajendra Mishra, Digangana's lawyer, also released a statement in which he stated: “We would like to officially quote that all the allegations made against our client Digangana are absolutely baseless and an outcome of someone’s criminal intention and trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Our client has known Manish for 7 years and is an actress on his series “showstopper”, when Manish was in a situation where he clearly couldn’t help himself, he asked for help from our client and proposed a business deal where his team had executed an MOU between him and our client. Strangely, Manish Harishankar doesn’t understand that extortion doesn’t happen in legal binding; it’s called business. Under the terms of the MOU. Our client had gotten a presenter on board, and honoured her side of the commitment.
The statement further reads, “Which is when our client further requested the presenter and after re-editing the show (for which our client invested 4 days at the edit suit) the presenter watched the episodes and agreed to present the show, although a lot of changes were still required, but Manish promised to fix them after their agreement.”