New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Supreme Court has granted interim protection from coercive action to influencer Ranveer Allahbadia in FIRs lodged against his comments on YouTube show.

The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the remarks made by YouTuber and podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia during his guest appearance on the show India's Got Latent. The Court has also asked Allahabadia's lawyer to clarify the parameters of obscenity and vulgarity.

The Court questioned Allahabadia's counsel: "If this is not obscenity, what is it? Why should we quash or club the FIRs against you?"

The SC also remarked: "In the name of freedom of speech, no one has the license to speak whatever they want against societal norms."

J Kant directed that:

(i) No f...