Delhi High Court restrains Netflix from streaming show on schoolboy found dead in Gurugram School

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• Aug 14, 2021 | moderator

Delhi: “A Big Little Murder” documentary is based on the tragic death of a 7-year-old boy who was found dead in the washroom of Gurugram based Ryan International School. The Gurugram based school, through its trust, had approached the Delhi High Court, against the streaming of the documentary.

The Delhi High Court has restrained Netflix from showing the documentary. The broadcasting can be done only if all scenes wherein references to the school are removed, said Justice Jayant Nath.

"The defendants are restrained from streaming, broadcasting, telecasting, etc. the documentary titled "A big Little Murder" or any of its abridged versions. I may clarify that the defendants may stream the said documentary after deleting all references to the plaintiff school in question and deleting the portion where the building of the school is depicted," Justice Jayant Nath said.

The plea stated that the documentary released on Netflix on August 6, 2021, contended by Advocate Virmani and Sandeep Kapur, that the documentary used the name and visuals school building which was done in complete violation of a lower court order dated January 8, 2018.