SACRED -[NETFLIX]- GAMES

Petition filed in Indian court against Netflix over "offensive scenes" about former Prime Minister Gandhi.

Netflix is being taken to court in India and asked to delete certain "offensive scenes" and remarks about former Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandhi in its original series "Sacred Games".

The Delhi High Court adjourned the case on Thursday to give judges respondents time to study the petition filed by Nikhil Bhalla, a lawyer and a member of the opposition Congress party, which Gandhi led for  seven years  until her assassination in 1991.

The series, Sacred Games, is a thriller set in Mumbai with a cast of police officers, spies and politicians. It debuted this month in the first of a series of new shows aimed at Indian market.

In one scene, Gandhi, is refrred to as a "Lattu" a Hindu slang word for a coward.

Grainy news footage shows him shaking hands with world leaders, while a  voice over  accuses him of appeasing Muslim groups in a case involving divorce rights for Muslim women.

" The show   Sacred Games  has inappropriate  dialogues, political attacks and even speeches, which are derogatory in nature and harms the reputation of the former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi," the petition said.

A  Netflix spokesman  in India did not reply to phone calls and text messages seeking comment.

Gandhi became Prime Minister after his mother was  assassinated in 1984. He lost power  five years later and in 1991, still holding the post of  Congress party president, was killed by an ethnic  Tamil suicide bomber.

His son Rahul Gandhi, is the current party president.

The petition asks the court to order Netflix to delete derogatory remarks made directly or indirectly against Rajiv or his family.

Last month, American television studio ABC apologized to Indian fans of its show Quantico, after  online outrage over a Hindu terror plot. Quantico star Priyanka Chopra also apologized, saying she would always be a ''proud Indian'"

India does not censor content on the Internet, but movies and television are both heavily censored. [Agencies].