Shah Rukh Khan received relief on Monday as the Supreme Court supported the Gujarat High Court’s decision to drop the charges against him in connection with the 2017 stampede at Vadodara Railway Station.

A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar dismissed a complaint made against Shahrukh Khan.

The Gujarat High Court ruling had been contested by the complainant. The High Court of Gujarat’s decision to dismiss the charge the complainant had brought against the actor was upheld by the Supreme Court, which declined to intervene.

Shah Rukh Khan was accused of instigating a stampede at Vadodara Railway Station in 2017 while promoting his movie Raees. On April 27, 2022, the Gujarat High Court ruled that the criminal action against him be dropped.

To promote their Hindi feature film “Raees,” the actor was travelling from Mumbai to Delhi with his production crew.

In his private complaint against Khan to the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Vadodara, the complainant, Jitendra Madhubhai Solanki, claimed that Khan’s presence at the Vadodara Railway Station and his throwing of T-shirts and smiley balls at the crowd gathered there were the causes of the alleged stampede.

Shah Rukh Khan filed a petition with the High Court of Gujarat asking for the case to be dismissed, and the court eventually decided to do so in a judgement dated April 27, 2022.

Senior advocates Vijay Kumar and Siddharth Luthra, briefed by a group from Karanjawala and Company Advocates led by Ruby Singh Ahuja and Sandeep Kapur, Senior Partners, represented the petitioner and Shah Rukh Khan, respectively.

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