Anjana Mishra Files Rs 10-Cr Defamation Case Against Odia Web Series ‘Barang 1999’

Bhubaneswar: After issuing a legal notice to OTT platform Kanccha Lannka, Anjana Mishra, the survivor of a gangrape incident in 1999, has filed a defamation suit in a court in Bhubaneswar.

Anjana has filed the defamation suit against the OTT platform for its Odia web series “Barang 199”. Alleging that the web series had made false descriptions of the gangrape incident with an intention of harming the reputation of Mishra, she filed the suit at Senior Division Civil Judge’s court in Bhubaneswar.

Anjana’s lawyer Bibhu Prasad Tripathy, who filed the suit on her behalf, said she has sought Rs 10 crore as damages from the OTT platform for defaming her through the web series.

The trailer of the series, which was released on social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, depicts the struggle of a gangrape survivor in 1999.

Advocate Tripathy had told the media that the trailer of ‘Barang 1999’ has made false and defamatory descriptions of the gangrape incident with an intention of harming the reputation of Mishra. “It (the trailer of the web series) has concocted versions of the incident. Its makers have only changed the gangrape survivor’s name to Amrita Padhi,” he said.

Anjana had issued the legal notice to Kanncha Lannka of Glass Dreamz Entertainment Private Limited, the OTT platform’s cofounder-cum-managing director Bibhu Prasad Rath, cofounder-cum-executive director Chitta Ranjan Nayak, Camera Queen Production, its founder Himadri Tanaya Das, YouTube India, Facebook developed by Meta and managing director and editor of Argus Pratham Broadcast India Private Limited.

Chairman and co-founder, Kanccha Lannka, Akshay Parija had said, “We have received a legal notice which we will examine and take necessary action. Our recently released web series “Barang 1999” is a piece of fiction and it has not portrayed any one in bad light. We would request viewers to watch it and make their own assessment.’’

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