EXCLUSIVE: Bombay High Court sets aside IMPPA’s | Indian Movie News
In a vital legal victory for producer Nikhil Dwivedi’s Saffron Magicworks, the Bombay High Court has set aside an award dated July 3, 2026, handed by the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) against the manufacturing home, bringing the proceedings in the current go well with to an end.
According to a assertion issued by Saffron Magicworks, the court set aside the impugned award handed by IMPPA’s Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC), with the court recording that the go well with stood disposed of and nothing additional survived for consideration in the pending functions.
The development follows an interim order dated September 9, 2026, handed by Justice Arif S Doctor, under which the court had restrained IMPPA from declaring Saffron Magicworks a defaulter consequent to the disputed award until additional orders.
The September order had also recorded a assertion made on instructions by counsel for Defendant No. 2 that the get together wouldn’t act upon the impugned award.
Saffron Magicworks had approached the High Court difficult the award handed through IMPPA’s dispute decision mechanism and looking for safety against its implementation and the implications that might comply with from it.
In its latest order dated October 23, 2026, Justice Arif S Doctor particularly addressed IMPPA’s place, observing that since the affiliation’s own committee had handed the purported award, IMPPA couldn’t be aggrieved by its setting aside.
The Court additional recorded that IMPPA, despite having been served, had not entered an look on any date during the proceedings.
The latest development assumes significance against the backdrop of the disagreement between the events over the interpretation of the court’s earlier instructions.
Saffron Magicworks has alleged that IMPPA’s public assertion on the proceedings was materially deceptive on the central query of whether or not the affiliation had been restrained by the court. The manufacturing home’s place was that the September 9 order expressly prohibited IMPPA from declaring it a defaulter on the idea of the July 3 award.
The manufacturing home additional maintained that any suggestion that the court had imposed no such restraint was inconsistent with the wording of paragraph 4 of the order.
The dispute had thus prolonged past the award itself to the interpretation and public illustration of the court’s instructions. With the award now set aside, the latest order marks a decisive development in Saffron Magicworks’ problem to the proceedings initiated through IMPPA’s dispute decision mechanism.
The Court disposed of the go well with and pending functions, leaving open the rights, contentions and remedies accessible to the events under law.
Advocates Rashmin Khandekar, Dhruva Gandhi, Madhu Gadodia, Vivek Dwivedi, Vinita Dandekar and Aryan Garg, instructed by Anand and Naik, appeared for Saffron Magicworks, along with the manufacturing home’s Chief Legal Officer, Kartikeya Desai.
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