SC grants Allahabadia protection from arrest but strongly chides him
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court granted influencer Ranveer Allahabadia immunity from arrest based on multiple FIRs over his alleged problematic comments on a show. However, the court strongly chided him for his distasteful remarks, saying that there was something dirty in his mind that he vomited on the show.
An infuriated bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh asked, “There is something very dirty in his mind, which has been vomited by him in the programme…He is insulting parents also. Why should the courts favour him?” quoted Live Law. "The words which you have used, parents will feel shamed. Sisters and daughters will feel ashamed. Entire society will feel shamed. It shows a perverted mind.”
Agreeing to the submissions of senior advocate Abhinav Chandrachud, representing the influencer, that he be protected from any coercive action, the court granted him relief from immediate arrests.
Allahabadia’s advocate told the court that the influencer is receiving death threats.
Besides granting him protection from any coercive action in FIRs lodged in Mumbai and Guwahati, the bench also said no further FIRs should be lodged against him for his comments during the YouTube show, "India's Got Latent".
Besides, the top court restrained Allahbadia and his associate influencers on the controversial YouTube show from airing any other episode till further orders.
It directed Allahbadia to deposit his passport at the Thane police station and said he should not leave the country without the prior permission of the court.
The bench also directed Allahbadia to cooperate in the probe of the FIRs lodged at Maharashtra and Assam.