New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 18), while coming down hard on influencer Ranveer Allahabadia, known as BeerBiceps, over his alleged obscene and vulgar remarks during ‘India’s Got Latent’ show on YouTube, granted him interim protection from arrest and directed him to cooperate with the investigation.
A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a plea filed by Allahabadia seeking clubbing of First Information Reports (FIRs) registered against him over his obscene comments.
If this is not obscenity in this country, then what is, bench asked
“What are the parameters of obscenity/vulgarity? If this is not obscenity in this country, then what is!? See the language you are using. You have got license to speak all kind of things,” the bench asked advocate Abhinav Chandrachud, who represented Allahabadia and added, “He is insulting parents also! There is something dirty in this person’s mind that has been spread through this program. Why the Courts should favor him?”
Chandrachud told the bench that he personally is disgusted by the statements.
Words you have chosen, parents will be ashamed, sisters will be ashamed, bench told Allahabadia’s lawyer
“The words you have chosen, parents will be ashamed, sisters will be ashamed. Entire society will feel ashamed. The perversion you and your henchmen have exhibited! We have judicial system, bound by rule of law. If there are threats, law will take course,” the bench said.
Apex Court directed Allahabadia, his associates not to air any other show till further orders
The bench stayed the arrest of Allahabadia in FIRs registered against him in Assam, Mumbai and Jaipur subject to his joining investigation and cooperating fully and said that he won’t be accompanied by counsel inside police station. The bench further said that no further FIR shall be registered against him on the basis of episode aired on show ‘India’s Got Latent’ and also directed that he or his associates shall not air any other show till further orders.
