The Maharashtra cyber police has denied permission for comic Samay Raina to document by way of videoconferencing his assertion in reference to the FIR registered in opposition to him, podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, influencer Apoorva Mukhija and others over Allahbadia’s controversial remarks throughout the India’s Received Latent YouTube present that went viral on-line.
A senior officer from the Maharashtra cyber police confirmed the event on Monday.
The cyber police have already served a summons to Raina, asking him to look for questioning on Tuesday. His authorized workforce had mentioned he was travelling overseas and scheduled to return on Monday.
Earlier, Raina had sought extra time for showing earlier than the cyber police, however that request was additionally denied.
Ranveer Allahbadia has additionally been summoned a second time by the Maharashtra cyber police on February 24, after he failed to answer the primary summon and didn’t seem earlier than police.
An argument has erupted over an episode of India’s Received Latent the place Allahbadia requested a contestant an “insensitive” query. The present and its artists, particularly Allahbadia and Raina, acquired sharp criticism from netizens, movie stars, different celebrities, politicians and most of the people. The Assam police had been the primary to register an FIR over the present, adopted by the Maharashtra cyber police.
The cyber police has already summoned greater than 50 folks, together with Raina, Allahbadia, Mukhija, different artists, comedians, influencers, content material creators, YouTubers, actors, individuals and organisers of Raina’s present after reserving all of them within the case.
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Solely MTV Roadies creator Raghu Ram has appeared earlier than the cyber police within the case to date.
Raina has already eliminated all India’s Received Latent movies from his YouTube channel and mentioned that he’ll cooperate with all businesses to make sure their inquiries are concluded pretty.
For his half, Allahbadia posted a video apologising for his “insensitive jokes”.
The Mumbai police are additionally inquiring into the matter and have recorded statements from Mukhija, Ashish Chanchlani and over a dozen different folks linked to the present.
