New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice on a petition filed by YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani, seeking to quash or transfer an FIR registered against him in Guwahati for allegedly promoting obscenity in an online show.
A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh tagged Chanchlani's petition along with that of podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, the primary accused in the case for his controversial remarks on the YouTube show India's Got Latent.
During the hearing, the Bench noted that Chanchlani had been granted bail by the Gauhati High Court and that the FIRs stemmed from the same show, where Allahbadia had already been granted interim relief earlier in the week.
Significantly, on February 18, the ...