On February 18, the top court protected Allahbadia from arrest in multiple FIRs filed over his comments during a YouTube show and directed him to deposit his passport with the investigating officer of Police Station Nodal Cyber Police
Ranveer took to Instagram, where he shared a string of pictures featuring him posing along with his family, pet, friends and crew members. For the caption, he wrote: "Thank you to my loved ones Thank you universe! A new blessed chapter begins - Rebirth."
Allahbadia was supposed to appear before the Assam Police the previous week in the case related to his controversial comments on the stage of the ‘India's Got Latent’ show that has attracted massive backlash for the podcaster.
Producers of the show -- Saurabh Bothra and Tushar Poojari -- and lawyers of comic Jaspreet Singh and YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani also appeared before the panel
Both Maharashtra Cyber and Mumbai police are pursuing the matter after YouTuber and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia made controversial remarks on Samay Raina's YouTube show, in which Apoorva is also involved
Many content creators, journalists and digital experts say it could lead to censorship, stifle free speech and significantly expand the government’s powers to regulate digital media content