Days after one P Jaya Kumar approached a city civil court in Hyderabad, alleging that Ram Gopal Varma plagiarized his work and made 'God, Sex & Truth', the director has responded duly.

"I gave work to one Jai who I came to know is known as Jay Kumar without him having any background credentials only out of my habit if encouraging new people which I am known for. Even though his work was below par I gave him numerous chances to prove himself," he says in a statement.

"I work with assistant writers with whom I continuously bounce my ideas both orally and over mail and this I do with multiple writers and directly depending upon their individual contribution I decide on the credits to be given/not given. Everyone knows I am known for my original thinking and also there were numerous instances where I gave credit to even sources not directly connected to the movie," he adds.

"In such a scenario, Jai is one of the various writers with whom I used to interact in this manner for over a year or so. Jai was caught multiple times stealing from the office and committing financial fraud and also theft. After many warnings, he was removed from office some 8 or 10 months back and now he suddenly surfaced falsely claiming plagiarism towards me," he says.

"The written material of 'God, Sex & Truth', which he put out in the public domain claiming to be his, is actually either stolen or hacked," Ramu alleges.

"The very fact that he put out the script is self-explanatory and his intention is to cause harm and not to protect his own property or else how would he assume from a few lines in a 2.5 mint trailer that the whole script is that?" RGV questions.

"The writing of 'God, Sex & Truth' is in the mails of at least 15 odd people who worked on the project in various capacities over the past 3 months. When I started working on it only for the last 3-4 months, whereas Jay was removed from service some 10 months ago. I kept quiet all this time because I didn't want to draw attention to such criminal minded fraudsters," the director says in a strongly-worded rebuttal.

"But now I initiated stringent civil and criminal proceedings against him invoking various sections of the Indian penal code and I already reported to the cybercrime division with regard to his criminal activities. Since he was working with me over a long time, multiple ideas and scripts were bounced off him among many others and a criminal minded guy like him may anytime come and claim ownership on anything like how he`s claiming now," he signs off.