Court dismisses Kamal Haasan’s plea against Regent Saimira on Marmayogi
The Hindu
Justice R. Subramanian refused to strike out the pleadings and instead granted 15 days’ time for Regent Saimira and its whole-time director K.S. Srinivasan to file an affidavit of verification, in support of their pleadings
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application taken out jointly by actor Kamal Haasan and Raajkamal Films International, to strike out the pleadings made by Regent Saimira Entertainment Limited in response to a civil suit filed by him and his production firm demanding ₹11 crore with 10% interest from 2009 for not honouring financial commitments for production of a movie titled Marmayogi.
Justice R. Subramanian refused to strike out the pleadings and instead granted 15 days’ time for Regent Saimira and its whole-time director K.S. Srinivasan to file an affidavit of verification, in support of their pleadings, as required under the Commercial Courts Act of 2015. The judge agreed with the defendants’ counsel A. Chidambaram that the defect was curable and therefore the entire written statement need not be rejected.
The judge pointed out that though the suit was filed in 2009, the Commercial Division of the High Court took cognisance of it only in September 2020 and granted time to the defendants to file their written statement. Thereafter, the actor and his production firm took out an application to reject the statement on the ground that it was not accompanied by a verifying affidavit as required under the 2015 Act.