The
Bombay
High
Court
today
declined
to
grant
any
interim
relief
to
Bollywood
actors
Ranveer
Singh
and
Arjun
Kapoor
over
an
FIR
filed
against
them
and
other
film
personalities
for
using
"obscene" and
"abusive"
language
during
a
comedy
event
'AIB
Knockout'
in
2015.
A
bench
of
Justices
R
M
Savant
and
Sarang
Kotwal
directed
the
actors'
lawyer
to
seek
the
assent
of
the
Acting
Chief
Justice
V
K
Tahilramani's
court
for
the
matter
to
be
heard
along
with
two
other
related
pleas.
One
of
these
two
pleas
were
filed
by
comedian
Rohan
Joshi
of
AIB,
a
comedy
collective,
seeking
that
a
related
FIR
against
him
be
quashed.
The
other
plea
is
a
Public
Interest
Litigation
(PIL)
filed
by
a
law
teacher
from
the
city.
The
PIL
seeksaction
against
the
organisers
and
participants
of
the
show,
and
also
urges
the
HC
to
direct
the
state
authorities
to
issue
guidelines
to
monitor
such
programmes
on
YouTube
and
similar
video
networks.
The
actors,
meanwhile,
urged
the
court
to
direct,
by
way
of
an
interim
relief,
the
Pune
and
Mumbai
police
to
refrain
from
taking
any
coercive
action
against
them.
The
bench,
however,
said
it
will
consider
the
prayer
once
all
the
three
pleas
were
tagged
together
and
assigned
for
further
hearing
by
the
Acting
CJI's
court.
On
December,
20,
2014,
Singh
and
Kapoor,
along
with
eight
other
celebrities,
including
Karan
Johar,
Deepika
Padukone
and
members
of
the
AIB
team
had
performed
at
a
charity
event
in
Worli.
A
video
of
the
event
was
subsequently
uploaded
on
YouTube
which
went
viral.
In
February,
2015,
one
Sateesh
Daundkar
filed
a
complaint
with
the
Chief
Metropolitan
Magistrate
of
the
Girgaon
court
here,
claiming
the
show
was
"vulgar,
obscene
and
pornographic".
The
court
then
ordered
that
an
FIR
be
registered
against
all
the
ten
people.
Soon
after,
another
FIR
was
registered
against
all
the
ten
persons
in
Pune
following
a
complaint
by
a
local
alleging
obscenity
during
the
event.
Singh
and
Kapoor
approached
the
HC
earlier
this
year
after
they
received
summons
from
the
Pune
police,
directing
them
to
visit
the
police
station
for
questioning
and
recording
their
statements.
They
have
claimed
in
their
plea
that
the
FIRs
against
them
bore
an
ulterior
motive
and
were
filed
with
"mischievous" and
malafide
intent,
and
sought
their
quashing.
In
2015,
another
bench
of
the
HC
had
granted
interim
relief
to
Padukone,
Johar,
and
the
AIB
members
and
directed
both
the
Mumbai
and
Pune
police
not
to
take
any
coercive
action
against
them
until
further
orders.
Senior
counsel
Mahesh
Jethmalani,
who
appeared
for
AIB
and
for
Kappor
and
Singh,
argued
that
the
programme
was
full
of
humour
and
entertained
the
audience.
He
also
urged
the
court
to
grant
interim
relief
to
Kapoor
and
Singh,
considering
that
other
actors
and
comedians
had
already
been
granted
such
a
relief.
(PTI
News)