Ranveer Allahbadia Case Highlights: YouTuber ‘out of contact’ says police

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: A Mumbai-based content creator, who was in the audience during the controversial episode of YouTuber Samay Raina's show 'India's Got Latent', has revealed what transpired after podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia made an obscene joke on a contestant's parents. Read more

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: “Would you let #SamayRaina feel up your hairy arms every day, or join in once to stop the absolutely hypocritical prudish nonsense that's going on right now?” singer-composer Vishal Dadlani wrote on his Instagram story.

“The government wanted to control online content. They've been trying and getting stopped for a long time. Our innocent/illiterate public, in this wave of tv-generated outrage, are giving away their own freedom. Not to mention..." what Kumbh stampede-deaths? Samjhe?” he added.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Samay Raina recently deleted all episodes of his show India’s Got Latent from YouTube following the controversy surrounding Ranveer Allahbadia’s remark on the show. Now, a clip from an unreleased episode has surfaced online, featuring Farah Khan, and fans think the episode would have been “lit." Read more

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: "A complaint was filed against Ranveer Allahabadia for an investigation on India's Got Latent for the inappropriate content. We sent a letter to Mumbai Commissioner for an inquiry and saying whatever the report comes, will be given to Women's Commission. Supreme Court has reprimanded them very well and ordered the stoppage of shows," Rupali Chakankar told news agency ANI.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: ‘Panipat’ actor Sahil Salathia spoke on the ‘India’s Got Latent' controversy and said, "It's unfortunate, but our literacy rate is not very high. If you use a lot of foul language, you're going to get views. If you do clickbait and use big names, you're going to get views. If you bring people on a show and zalil karo them, you're going to get views because people enjoy that."

He also said that creators needed to be responsible for the content they put out.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Comedian Samay Raina has received time till March 10 to appear before the Mumbai police in an investigation related to comments made by Ranveer Allahbadia on the show ‘India’s Got Latent'.

After Allahbadia's remarks sparked outrage, Raina deleted the episodes of the popular show on YouTube.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Ranveer Allahbadia earlier this week issued a public apology on his social media platforms and said that he is receiving death threats and people have invaded his mother's clinic masquerading as patients.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Abhinav Chandrachud is being slammed by netizens after making a comparison to Nupur Sharma's comments in the Supreme Court hearing regarding YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia's allegedly obscene remarks during the ‘India’s Got Latent' show.

Chandrachud, who was representing Allahbadia, said that alleged comments made by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, which were derogatory to Prophet Muhammad were much more harmful than Allahbadia's remarks.

However, netizens have stated that there is no comparison between the comments and that Ranveer Allahbadia's channels should be banned.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Mumbai police said that they are unable to trace YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia as his phone remains switched off amid a probe into his comments on the show ‘India's Got Latent' which have sparked controversy.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: The Gauhati high court has scheduled March 7 as the date of the next hearing for Ashish Chanchlani in the ‘India’s Got Latent' case in connection with YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia's comments.

Ashish Chanchlani was granted interim bail by the court as well.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Abhinav Chandrachud, who is currently representing Ranveer Allahbadia in his ‘India’s Got Latent' case is also the son of former Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud.

Abhinav earned his LLB and BLS degrees from Government Law College, Mumbai, in 2008, where he was recognised with the Honourable Justice DP Madon Prize in Constitutional Law and was a Mumbai University rank-holder.

Chandrachud then obtained an LLM from Harvard Law School in 2009 as a Dana Scholar and later pursued JSM and JSD degrees at Stanford Law School, being honoured as a Franklin Family Scholar.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: An audience member from the controversial episode of the ‘India’s Got Latent' show which resulted in flak towards Ranveer Allahbadia, said the YouTuber apologised four times after making the comment which landed him in hot water.

In a video shared on his own social media handle, which later went viral on the internet, the audience member revealed, “I was present in that episode and I don't know what happened. I was in audience. That kid came… Ranveer said that joke. After saying that joke, Ranveer said ‘sorry I hope you weren't hurt’ around 3-4 times."

He added, “I know a ‘sorry’ doesn’t fix everything, but still he was like assuring that the kid was comfortable. ”

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Abhinav Chandrachud, son of CJI DY Chandrachud, and lawyer of Ranveer Allahbadia, conceded in response to a Supreme Court bench's questioning, that remarks made by his client were disgusting.

"Are you defending the kind of language he has used?" Justice Surya Kant asked Chandrachud, who conceded that he was “disgusted” by what Allahbadia said on the YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent.'

However, he argued that the remarks did not constitute a criminal offence as profanity per se would not amount to obscenity.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: The Supreme Court has barred Ranveer Allahbadia and his associates from airing “any show on YouTube or any other audio/video visual mode of communication till further orders."

During a hearing on a case regarding inappropriate comments made during the YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent', the Supreme Court also granted Allahbadia interim relief and stated that no further FIRs could be filed against him in the matter.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim relief to Ranveer Allahbadia but also criticised him heavily for his inappropriate comments during his guest appearance on the YouTube show India's Got Latent.

Describing his comments as “dirty and perverted”, the court asked, “If this is not obscenity, then what is obscenity?”

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: In a joint statement, Mumbai police and Guwahati police, claimed that YouTuber and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia had continuously been out of contact with the investigation agencies regarding a probe into his controversial comments on an online show.

The police said Allahbadia was yet to respond to investigation agencies after being named in FIRs filed by Maharashtra Cyber Department, Guwahati Police, and Jaipur Police in the 'India's Got Latent' case.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: The Maharashtra State Commission for Women has directed the Mumbai police to probe the YouTube show "India's Got Latent" after receiving a complaint that it was bad for the young generation

MCW chairperson Rupali Chakankar said on Tuesday that the complaint was submitted to the commission by two lawyers, and stated that the police would take appropriate action into it.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it wasn't sitting in "ivory towers" and knew that Ranveer Allahbadia copied his comments from an Australian TV show. They were referring to Allahbadia's remarks, which were deemed obscene, on a YouTube show.

"We are not sitting in ivory towers. We know from various sources. We know how he has tried to copy it from an Australian programme and from there, he has tried to pick up some actor's dialogue," said the bench, comprising Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh on Tuesday flagged the "vacuum" in law regarding content shared on platforms such as YouTube and said "all kinds of things were going on".

The judges took notice of the Ranveer Allahbadia case and stated that they would like action to be taken.

“ These YouTubers and their shows, something has to be done about them and we will do it. We are not going to leave it like this. ”

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Ranveer Allahbadia and other panellists on the India's Got Latent episode where his comments sparked controversy, have been asked to appear in front of the National Commission for Women (NCW) on March 6.

After none of the accused appeared on the original date of the hearing - February 17, the NCW sent a revised summons to Ranveer Allahbadia, Apoorva Mukhija, Ashish Chanchlani, Tushar Poojari and Saurabh Bothra to appear on March 6.

Samay Raina, Jaspreet Singh and Balraj Ghai have also been summoned on March 11.

Ranveer Allahbadia Case Live Updates: Gauhati high court granted interim bail to YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani in connection with the Ranveer Allahbadia case for allegedly promoting obscenity in a publicly accessible online show, reported PTI.

A single-judge bench of Justice Mridul Kumar Kalita granted Chanchlani interim bail and asked him to be present before the investigating officer within 10 days.