Supreme Court Likely To Hear YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s Plea In Crass Remark Row Tomorrow
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court will likely hear on Tuesday a plea by YouTube personality Ranveer Allahbadia, aka ‘BeerBiceps Guy’, to club FIRs that have been filed across various states, including Maharashtra and Assam, over controversial remarks he made on stand-up comedy show ‘India’s Got Latent’.
Mr Allahbadia – who faces police investigations, has been summoned by the National Commission for Women, and may also have to face a parliamentary panel – moved the Supreme Court last week, asking that FIRs against him be combined for ease of representation and sought anticipatory bail.
He also sought an urgent hearing, a request the bench led by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna nixed.
Mr Allahbadia, who runs a popular podcast on YouTube and is widely followed on social media, was supposed to appear before the NCW this morning, but, as with the summons from Mumbai Police, he skipped the call. He later claimed death threats stopped him from travelling to the NCW meet.
He has now been summoned again on March 6.
The social media personality on Saturday confessed to feeling “scared” by the threats to his life but insisted he would not back down. “I am watching death threats pour in from people saying they want to kill me… hurt my family,” he said, also claiming an ‘invasion’ of his mother’s medical clinic.
“I am feeling scared, and I don’t know what to do… But I am not running away. I have full faith in the police and the judicial system of India,” he said.
