In Brief
Film director Sujoy Ghosh registered his "Kahaani-2" script in 2013. A person claiming authorship of script "Sabak" (registered in 2015) filed a copyright infringement complaint, leading to criminal summons. The Screen Writers Association's expert committee found no similarity between the works and rejected the complaint. The Supreme Court held the criminal proceedings manifestly frivolous and vexatious, as Ghosh's script predated the complainant's by years and the complaint lacked specific allegations of copied material. The Court quashed the summoning order and criminal proceedings, emphasizing that courts must scrutinize copyright claims carefully and prevent abuse of the legal process.
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