India, Aug. 26 -- The Supreme Court (SC) of India has directed social media influencers, including Samay Raina, to display an apology on their podcast and programmes for ridiculing disabled persons. Besides Samay, the other persons named in the case are Vipul Goyal, Balraj Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar, and Nishant Jagdish Tanwar. Following Monday's hearing, the SC has also called on the government to frame guidelines for social media to curb speeches offending or ridiculing disabled people, women, children and senior citizens. The top court further asked the comedians "where the jokes will end", as it asked them to apologise. Furthermore, Senior Advocate Aparajita Singh, who appeared for the foundation CURE SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) that filed the petition against the comedian, called on them to "spread awareness about the issue. Let them use their influence to take forward this issue. That would be the best apology," she said. The five influencers were summoned by the SC over offensive and derogatory remarks made against persons with disabilities. In May's hearing, the bench headed by Justice Surya Kant took strong objection to the comments made by Samay and the four influencers. "There are people who seek fundamental right of free speech. If there is such freedom, then we will curtail any speech which demeans another community," said the country's highest court. In the arguments before the court, the expressions used to mock people with disabilities by Samay and the others were deemed to amounting to "hate speech". The foundation also presented video evidence of the influencers in which they are seen ridiculing persons suffering from SMA, a rare disorder, and also those suffering from other disabilities on their show. Earlier, Samay, along with podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, was summoned by the top court for controversial remarks made on the comedy show India's Got Latent. HTC...