New Delhi, May 5 -- The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to comedians Samay Raina, Vipul Goyal, and three others in response to a writ petition alleging that they made derogatory and insensitive jokes targeting persons with disabilities.
The court directed that the individuals appear before it on the next date of hearing or face coercive action.
A bench comprising justices Surya Kant and N. Kotiswar Singh passed the order while hearing a petition filed by Cure SMA Foundation, a non-profit organisation advocating the rights of persons with spinal muscular atrophy.
The petition also names comedians Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar a.k.a. Sonali Aditya Desai, and Nishant Jagdish Tanwar.
The bench instructed the commissio...