Mumbai: The Mumbai High Court on September 22 restrained police from arresting film maker Rakesh Roshan, his actor son Hrithik and Rakesh's father-in-law J Omprakash in six cases of alleged cheating till September 25 and deferred their plea seeking to quash a lower court order, which directed cops to probe these cases.

Justices Ranjana Desai and P V Kakade heard the arguments of Jayantilal Gada of M/S Popular Entertainment Network who has filed six cases against Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik and J Omprakash for alleged cheating.

Gada's counsel A Y Sakhare prayed that the high court had no jurisdiction to hear this matter under Article 226 of the Constitution.

The Roshans and J Omprakash filed a rejoinder through their lawyer Dipesh Mehta, saying that the division bench had the jurisdiction. With the mutual consent of both sides, the matter was deferred to September 25.

Gada alleged that the Roshans and J Omprakash had committed breach of agreements with regard to merchandising of films.

Earlier, the high court had suggested the parties go for an out-of-court settlement. Accordingly, they met on August six but could not work out a compromise and decided to follow the legal course.

The Roshans had entered into agreements with M/S Popular Entertainment Network for merchandising their past and future films, including 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai'.

J Omprakash also entered into agreements with the same company for marketing films made by him. However, dispute arose over payments.

PTI