Ranveer
Singh
&
Arjun
Kapoor
to
face
JAIL
term
in
AIB
case
?
|
FilmiBeat
The
Bombay
High
Court
today
refused
to
grant
any
interim
relief
to
actors
Ranveer
Singh
and
Arjun
Kapoor
on
an
FIR
filed
against
them
and
some
other
film
personalities
in
2015
for
allegedly
using
obscene
and
abusive
language
during
the
comedy
event
'AIBKnockout'.
A
bench
of
justices
R
M
Savant
and
Sarang
Kotwal
directed
the
actors'
lawyer
to
first
serve
a
copy
of
their
plea
to
one
of
the
complainants
in
the
case,
activist
Santosh
Dundkar.
The
actors
had
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
only
after
the
complainant
was
provided
a
copy
of
the
petition,
and
scheduled
the
matter
for
further
hearing
on
April
3.
On
December
20,
2014,
Singh
and
Kapoor,
along
with
10
other
celebrities,
including
Karan
Johar,
Deepika
Padukone,
and
members
of
the
AIB
team,
had
performed
at
a
charity
event
in
Worli
area
here.
The
video
of
the
event
was
uploaded
on
YouTube
a
year
later
and
it
went
viral.
In
February
2015,
Dundkar
filed
a
complaint
with
the
chief
metropolitan
magistrate
of
Girgaon
court,
alleging
that
the
show
was
"vulgar,
obscene...pornographic."
The
court
then
ordered
that
an
FIR
be
registered
against
all
the
10
people.
Soon
after,
another
FIR
was
registered
against
all
10
of
them
in
Pune
following
a
complaint
by
a
local
alleging
obscenity
during
the
event.
Singh
and
Kapoor
approached
the
high
court
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
claimed
in
their
plea
that
the
FIRs
against
them
bore
an
ulterior
motive.They
also
alleged
that
the
FIRs
were
filed
with
a
"mischievous"
and
mala
fide
intent,
and
sought
that
the
same
be
quashed.
Later,
another
bench
of
the
Bombay
High
Court
had
granted
an
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.
Credits
-
PTI