SC Asks Maharashtra, Assam To Reply On Youtuber Ashish Chanchlani Plea

The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Maharashtra and Assam governments on YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani's plea seeking to quash or transfer to Mumbai an FIR filed over the alleged obscene utterances made during an episode of India's Got Latent show aired recently.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant



and N Kotiswar Singh issued the notices and tagged Chanchlani's plea with podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia’s pending petition.

Chanchlani is named in the FIR in Assam, in which Allahbadia is reportedly shown to be the prime accused as he made the contentious remarks on the YouTube show hosted by comic Samay Raina.