YouTuber Paras Singh Granted Bail in Racism Row

ITANAGAR: The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court in Itanagar has granted bail to the Punjab-based YouTuber Paras Singh.

Earlier the YouTuber was arrested by the Ludhiana police in Punjab on May 26 for making racial remarks against senior Congress MLA Ninong Ering and the people of Arunachal Pradesh.

Following his arrest, Paras was brought to Itanagar on May 27 by a team of SIT from the state.

The court had on May 29 sent the YouTuber to judicial custody for 6 days in Arunachal Pradesh.

Paras had made the racial comments while reacting to a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Ering recently wherein he had appealed to the latter to ban the relaunch of PUBG Mobile India's new avatar Battlegrounds Mobile India.

Ering, also a former Lok Sabha member, had reasoned that the game was aimed at deceiving the government and citizens and should be banned in the country.

Further, two other PUBG gamers-Inder Preet (GTX Preet) and Shivamm Raghav (420 Gaming) with more than millions of followers on YouTube, called Ering 'Chinese' while replying to the queries put down by one of the viewers. Preet added, 'The minister has no idea about his whereabouts.

He looks like Chinese to me because of his appearance." He has around 1.79 million subscribers on YouTube and is a full-time LIVE PUBG streamer. Meanwhile, Shivamm said that the person who has tweeted the letter to ban Battleground Mobile India (BGMI) is himself from China and his name is also Chinese.

This is a developing story.