India, Nov. 14 -- More than 13 years after a Borivali man complained that his photograph was shown on TV among those of dead Bollywood celebrities, a sessions court on Friday quashed the criminal defamation case against Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd, which owns Colours TV, holding that the complaint lacked any intent to harm his reputation.

The complaint was filed by Somak Ashish Mukherjee, a resident of Borivali East, over a programme aired live on March 31, 2012 and telecast again on April 3, 2012. In it, songs were sung in tribute to several late Bollywood personalities, whose photographs were displayed on stage. Mukherjee said his photograph was among them, though he has no association with the film industry.

He told the Andheri metropoli...