Coming down heavily on Youtuber Ranveer Allahbadia for his alleged distasteful comments during the ‘India’s Got Latent’ show, the Supreme Court granted him interim protection from arrest in the two FIRs registered against him. The Court also restricted registering fresh FIRs over the matter.
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The Supreme Court rapped the Youtuber for the alleged derogatory comments and said “it exhibited the perversion in his mind”. Hearing Allahbadia’s plea for clubbing FIRs and protection from arrest, a bench comprising justices Surya Kant and N. Kotishwar Singh granted the plea subject to Allahbadia’s cooperation with the probe. “Arrest of petitioner under the Mumbai and Guwahati FIRs shall be stayed subject condition that Ranveer Allahbadia shall join investigation as and when summoned. Interim protection from arrest is granted on the premise that full cooperation has to be given without any lawyer inside police station,” Bar and Bench reported.
The bench also restricted the registration of fresh FIRs over the controversy. The apex court observed the Youtuber can approach local police for security. The bench directed Allahbadia to deposit his passport with Thane police and he cannot leave the country with permission of the Supreme Court. “The petitioner and his associates shall not do any other show for the time being,” the bench directed.
Hearing the case, the bench came down heavily on Allahbadia for his comments and asked, “If this is not obscene then what is?” At one point, the Court even asked Youtuber’s counsel Abhinav Chandrachud whether he is defending the language used. Chandrachud responded, “As an officer of the court I am disgusted at the language used,” Bar and Bench reported.
Observing Indian society has some self-evolved values, the bench said, “Such behaviour has to be condemned. Just because you are popular you cannot take the society for granted. Is there anyone on earth who will like this language? There is something very dirt in his mind which has been vomitted.”
The bench observed rule of law has to be followed, “The words you have chosen, parents will feel ashamed. Daughters and sisters will feel ashamed. The entire society will be ashamed. These are the levels of depravity you and your henchmen have gone.”
