New Delhi(11/01/2020): Delhi High Court has given a big decision regarding Deepika Padukone’s film ‘Chhapaak’.
The court has blocked the release of ‘Chhapak’ which didn’t gave credit to lawyer Aparna Bhat. Lawyer Aparna Bhatt has represented Laxmi Agarwal, an acid attack survivor, in a legal battle. After this decision, multiplexes will be affected from January 15 and platforms like live streaming from January 17. Earlier, the Delhi High Court had directed the filmmakers of ‘Chhapak’ to give credit to lawyer Aparna Bhat.
The Delhi High Court on Friday questioned the makers of the Deepika Padukone-starrer film ‘Chhapaak’ on ‘why they did not give credit to the lawyer of the acid attack victim Laxmi Agarwal for the information she delivered’. The film “Chhapak” is based on the life of Lakshmi Aggarwal and it was released in theaters on Friday.
The Court questioned the producer and director of the film during a hearing on a petition by Fox Star Studios earlier.
The petition challenged the court’s order of Thursday in which it was asked to give credit in view of the contribution of advocate Aparna Bhatt. Justice Pratibha M Singh reserved the order on the petition and said that the court will pronounce the verdict on Saturday morning. The court questioned what was the difficulty in giving credit to the lawyer and why the producers had gone to ask for information from her.
