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In a new development in India’s Got Latent row, the Supreme Court has reportedly issued a notice to Maharashtra and Assam based on YouTube star Ashish Chanchlani’s plea to quash or transfer FIRs to Mumbai.
The court has also clubbed Chanchlani’s plea with Ranveer Allahbadia’s. According to a news report, Chanchlani petitioned to quash or transfer to Mumbai the FIR filed against him in Guwahati in India’s Got Latent obscenity case. The YouTuber has been named along with Allahbadia, Jaspreet Singh, Apoorva Makhija and Samay Raina “for promoting obscenity and engaging in sexually explicit and vulgar discussion in a show titled ' India's Got Latent'.”
The Guwahati Crime Branch registered a case vide Cyber PS case no 03/2025 under sections - 79/95/294/296 of BNS 2023 read witb Sec 67 of IT Act, 2000, read with Section 4/7 of Cinematograph Act 1952 read with Section 4/6 of Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.
Chanchlani reportedly drafted a plea through his lawyer Advocate Shubham Kulshrestha and filed by Advocate Manju Jaitley, asking for his FIR to be quashed or transferred to Mumbai from Guwahati where it was filed. The Guwahati High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Chanchlani during his anticipatory bail petition hearing.
He has been directed to be present before the investigating office within 10 days. The apex court has also granted interim protection to Allahbadia from arrest in connection with multiple FIRs lodged against him across the country after he made an offensive joke in Raina’s YouTube show India’s Got Latent. The protection is subject to his full cooperation during the probe, said a news report.
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