New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear tomorrow a plea filed by influencer Ranveer Allahabadia, known as BeerBiceps, against the First Information Reports (FIRs) lodged over his alleged obscene and vulgar remarks during ‘India’s Got Latent’ show on YouTube.
As per the cause list of the apex court, a bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh is likely to take up Allahabadia’s plea.
Allahabadia’s plea was mentioned before apex court on Friday for urgent listing
Lawyer Abhinav Chandrachud, who represented Allahabadia, mentioned his plea for urgent listing on Friday before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, submitting that Assam Police has summoned him for joining the probe during the day.
“I have assigned the bench and it will come up (before a bench) in two-three days,” CJI Khanna had said.
Following uproar over Allahbadia’s remarks on parents and sex on comedian Samay Raina’s YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’, several FIRs have been lodged against him and others in various parts of the country.
What did Allahabadia say?
Allahabadia asked a contestant on the show Raina’s show ‘India’s Got Latent’, “Would you rather watch your parents have sex for the rest of your life, or would you join in once and stop it forever?”
FIR was registered by Assam Police
While the Mumbai Police is conducting an inquiry into the alleged remarks, the Assam Police has registered an FIR against five people, including Allahbadia, Raina, Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh and Apoorva Makhija in connection with the remarks made on the YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’.
The FIR in Assam was registered on the basis of a complaint made by one Alok Boruah, who said that the remarks made on the show caused “serious harm to public decency”.
The case was filed with the Guwahati Crime Branch under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) pertaining to insulting a woman’s modesty and “obscene acts” as well as the Information Technology (IT) Act and Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.
