Gautham Menon in Legal Trouble

14/01/2014

RS Infotainment and Gautham Menon's Photon Kathaas parted ways recently after several clashes, Elred Kumar of RS Infotainment even openly alleged that Gautham Menon had cheated him financially. Now yet again RS Infotainment have filed a case on Gautham Menon's production house alleging that they decived a huge sum of money in the Bollywood remake of Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya.

"Madras High Court bench chaired by Justice C T Selvam has directed the deputy commissioner of the central crime branch to register a case on the complaint of the petitioner. The police have been asked to conduct investigation in the case and if any cognisable offence was made out, it will be brought to the notice of both the parties," said counsel Ramesh Babu.

Now A.Abdul Hameed, the Counsel for director, Mr.Gautham Vasudev Menon has issued a statement saying that the allegations by RS Infotainment are false and misleading. He clarified that RS Infotainment had earlier filed a complaint on the same matter with the CCB in April, 2013. The CCB had investigated the matter and closed the case. RS Infotainment had then filed the same complaint with the Magistrate Court, suppressing the fact that CCB had closed the case earlier. Even here the Investigating Authorities upon enquiry had filed a report closing the case. RS infotainment has then again filed the same case with the High Court suppressing the fact that the case has been investigated and closed - twice.

Mr. A.Abdul Hameed stated that Mr.Gautham Vasudev Menon and Photon Kathaas have been vindicated twice by the authorities and he will be moving the High Court in this connection against RS Infotainment. He further stated that RS Infotainment was filing false cases suppressing the facts. Fox Star Studios had provided a letter to the authorities clearly detailing the accounts of the film Ekk Deewana Tha and that the film had made a loss of nearly 9 crores and there was no profit received from the film. Hence, there cannot be any claim either against Mr.Goutham Vasudev Menon or against Photon Kathaas. R.S. Infotainment's intention seems to be to harass and malign the reputation of Mr.Gautham Menon and Photon Kathaas, the Counsel said.