Supreme Court has sought response of Maharashtra and Assam governments on a plea of YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani seeking to quash or transfer to Mumbai a first information report (FIR) registered in Guwahati in connection with a case of allegedly promoting obscenity in an online show.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh issued notice and tagged Chanchlani’s plea with influencer Ranveer Allahbadia’s pending petition.
At the outset, the bench told Chanchlani’s counsel that he was already granted bail in the matter.
Counsel for Chanchlani admitted that he has got the relief but he was against lodging multiple of the FIR in connection with that one particular show.
The bench said it was already hearing the issue and tagged Chanchlani’s plea.
On February 18, the top court granted interim protection from arrest to podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia over his comments on a YouTube show while calling it ‘vulgar’ and saying he had ‘dirty mind’ which put the society to shame.
Several FIRs were lodged against Allahbadia, popularly known as BeerBiceps, for the comment on parents and sex on comic Samay Raina’s YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’.
