C grade skin flicks producer-director Yogendra Konkar was exposed in the court of law over his fake claim that he held the filming rights of Maharathi, the Gujarati play on which the Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision's film by the same name is based.

Sources inform, "In the year 2000, Yogendra Konkar had sought permission from Uttam Gada, the writer of the Gujarati play Maharathi to use some scenes from his play in the film he (Konkar) was planning to make back then.

It was a different matter altogether that Konkar never made any such film till today. In the meanwhile, Gada registered his script with The Film Writers' Association in 2002. He by then also had forgotten that he had issued any letter to someone to use certain scenes from his play.

Gada later sold the script of Maharathi to Mukesh Bhatt and the film was to be directed by Vikram Bhatt. But the project kept getting delayed and Shree Ashtavinayak then bought the script from the Bhatts.

Probably to make a quick buck out of it and hog some limelight, Kon­kar, filed a case against both Gada and Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision, claiming that the rights to make a film on Maharathi's script.

To avoid unnecessary complications and avoiding very much in details to verify Konkar's claims, Shree Ashtavinayak offered to settle this matter out of court and offered Konkar a good compensation.

But Konkar became greedier and instead demanded Rs. 1 crore. Baffled and irritated, Shree Ashta­vina­yak then decided to take him to court and fight him in the court of law.

Finally on December 3rd, when the matter came up for hearing at the Bombay High Court, the court dismissed it off stating that the agreement Konkar was relying upon was not at all valid.

Allegedly, Yog­en­dra Konkar had either forged Uttam Gada's signature from the letter he had in his possession or back-dated a fake agreement."

While the officials at Shree Ashtavinayak were happy about exposing Konkar's false claims, Konkar refused to comment on this when we tried contacting him.