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Gurgaon News - 2004

Khakee locked in court battle

GURGAON: Film director Raj Kumar Santoshi's multi-starrer Khakee is in the thick of a legal battle before a Gurgaon court.

Santoshi has sought criminal action against one Brijan Gaur, who claimed that his Amitabh Bachchan-led box office hit was allegedly based on a story written by him.

A Gurgaon civil court had rejected Gaur's plea to stop the screening of the film.

Later, the chief judicial magistrate admitted Santoshi's counter complaint against Gaur. Santoshi got his statutory statement recorded claiming Rs 50 lakh compensation from Gaur for making "false" allegations of plagiarism against him as well as Khakee 's story writer Sridhar Raghavan.

Santoshi's counsel, Vineet Dhanda, said Raghavan's statement would be recorded on August 14. Dhanda said Gaur did not submit the script of his story which he claimed had ben plagiarised to produce Khakee .