In another relief to popular YouTube Ranveer Allahbadia, the Highest Court on Monday directed the return of his passport.
Allahbadia, who made obscene and offensive remarks about parents in the comedy show “India’s Got Latent”, faces several FIRs and legal complaints across the country.
The top court, in an interim order passed on February 18, had conditionally stayed his arrest, and one of the conditions required him to deposit his passport with Mumbai’s Thane Nodal Cyber Police and not leave the country without prior permission of the apex court.
Allahbadia prayed that his passport be released since he needed to travel abroad for work, and the police probe against him was over.
Allowing the application, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N.K. Singh directed the Nodal Cyber Police to release Allahbadia’s passport to enable him to travel abroad.
The bench, however, clarified that Allahbadia will have to remain present before the Investigation Officer in case his presence is needed for further probe. It agreed to examine on the next date of listing Allahbadia’s prayer to club various FIRs registered against him.
In the previous hearing, advocate Abhinav Chandrachud, appearing for Allahbadia, pressed the application for release of the passport and, citing media reports, said that the probe was over in relation to the FIR registered in Maharashtra. (IANS)
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