The Supreme Court has given YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia a bit of relief after it granted him bail and said no further police cases could be filed against him on the comments he made on India’s Got Latent. Ranveer had asked a contestant, “Would you rather watch your parents have s*x every day for the rest of your life or join in once and stop it forever.”
However, the Supreme Court also came down heavily on him. Justice Kant said, “The words you have chosen, parents will be ashamed, sisters will be ashamed. The entire society will feel ashamed. The perverted mind. The perversion you and your henchmen have exhibited! We have a judicial system, bound by the rule of law. If there are threats (against Allahbadia), the law will take course.”
The Court also noted, “Such behaviour has to be condemned. Just because you are popular, you cannot take society for granted. Is there anyone on earth who would like this language? There is something very dirty in his mind which has been vomited. Why should we protect him?”
Ranveer had moved the Supreme Court against the FIRs lodged over his comments during the show. He also wanted the clubbing of all FIRs.
Senior advocate Abhinav Chandrachud was representing Ranveer in the case. “As an officer of the court, I personally am disgusted by what the petitioner has said but whether it rises to the level of a criminal offence is another question,” Abhinav told the court.
Referencing the Supreme Court's ruling in actor Apoorva Arora's case, Abhinav added, “If something excites, in the words of the court, lustful thoughts or sexual thoughts in the mind of a reasonable person, that would be obscenity.”
In 2024, the Supreme Court had quashed an FIR against the creators of web series College Romance setting a precedent for artistic expression and freedom of speech in the digital age.
