"Show Apology On Your Channels": Supreme Court To Samay Raina, Other Comics | Read
When you are commercialising speech, you cannot hurt the sentiments of a community, the Supreme Court said today, pulling up Samay Raina and several other comics on jokes mocking persons with disabilities.
The bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition by Cure SMA Foundation of India, which supports patients and families affected by spinal muscular atrophy. The petition had flagged jokes mocking people with disabilities. The comics who were called out included Samay Raina, Vipun Goyal, Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar and Nishant Jagdish Tanwar.
The petition was clubbed with the cases linked to India's Got Latent controversy, in which YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia was charged.
