The Delhi High Court on Monday sought a response from the center and online video streaming platform Netflix on an appeal filed against the Punjab National Bank scam accused Mehul Choksi's dismissal of the pre-screening petition for the Bad Boy Billionaires documentary series.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Center and Netflix and sought their reply by September 23 on Choksi's appeal. Advocate Vijay Aggarwal, appearing for Choksi, said that he was merely requesting that the case be sent back to the bench of a single judge, who had dismissed the petition for the festival screening of the series as not hearsay.

The single-judge bench, in its August 28 ruling, refused to grant any relief to Choksi, saying that the writ petition for enforcing private rights was not hearable. The High Court had said that Choksi's problem would be resolved by civil litigation and the court had given permission to take up the matter in a civil suit.

Gitanjali James promoter Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are accused in the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) forgery case. Choksi left the country last year and took citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda.

The documentary, which was to be released in India on September 2, has been promoted by Netflix in such a way, "This investigative documentary series shows the greed, forgery, and corruption that make and ultimately crush India's most maligned businessmen."