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Photo: ANINew Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday will hear the plea filed against Netflix and its web series ‘Sacred Games’ for allegedly defaming former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in an episode. The plea sought directions to ensure removal of the allegedly offensive scenes and remarks made directly or indirectly against the former Prime Minister or his family. The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change that. Produced by the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films joint venture, ‘Sacred Games’ is based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 thriller novel. The controversy over the web series started when a complaint was filed by Rajiv Sinha, a Congress member from West Bengal, alleging that the series was “misrepresenting facts during his (Rajiv Gandhi) regime”..