NEW DELHI: YouTuber and social media influencer Ranveer Allahbadia is yet to respond to multiple investigation agencies after being named in FIRs filed by Maharashtra Cyber Department, Guwahati Police, and Jaipur Police in the ‘India’s Got Latent’ joke case. “Ranveer Allahbadia is continuously out of contact with the investigation agencies,” Mumbai and Guwahati Police said in a joint statement.
“Allahbadia has not made contact with any of the agencies so far,” police said.
“Apart from Maharashtra Cyber and Guwahati Police, the Jaipur Police have also filed a case against Ranveer Allahbadia, but he has not yet been in contact with them too. Maharashtra Cyber Department has ordered Ranveer to appear before it on February 24,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will hear Allahbadia’s plea against the FIRs on Tuesday.
According to the cause list, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh is likely to take up the matter.
On Friday, Allahbadia’s lawyer Abhinav Chandrachud, had mentioned the matter for urgent listing.
“I have assigned the bench and it will come up (before a bench) in two-three days,” Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna had said when Chandrachud submitted that Assam Police has summoned Allahbadia for joining the probe during the day.
Besides Allahbadia and Raina, others named in the case in Assam are Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh and Apoorva Makhija.