HC tells YouTuber Ajeet Bharti to share video links to check if he was booked over remarks on CJI
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed YouTuber Ajeet Bharti to submit details or links to his own videos to the Punjab Police if he wants to know whether any first information report has been registered against him for his allegedly objectionable remarks about Chief Justice BR Gavai.
Bharti, a YouTuber from Begusarai in Bihar who espouses Hindutva views, had moved the High Court in October seeking protection from any coercive action taken by the Punjab Police after media reports claimed that an FIR had been filed against him.
He limited his petition to seeking directions for the Punjab government to inform him whether any such FIR existed, Bar and Bench reported.
The case came following a controversy that began when Delhi-based lawyer Rakesh Kishore attempted to throw a shoe at Gavai on October 7 and accused him of having insulted Hinduism.
Kishore had said that he was angered by the chief justice’s remarks on the restoration of a beheaded idol of Hindu deity Vishnu and on the Supreme Court judgement holding punitive demolitions as unconstitutional.
Later, videos circulating online showed Bharti and two guests on his podcast using abusive language against Gavai and allegedly inciting violence.
On October 27, the High Court had asked the Punjab government to clarify whether an FIR had been registered against Bharti, Bar and Bench reported.
In its response on Monday,...
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