Lawyer Abhinav Chandrachud is representing YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia in India’s Got Latent controversy over alleged abusive comments made in a recent episode. Abhinav has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking to quash multiple FIRs registered against Allahbadia and has requested an urgent hearing from the apex court.
The Supreme Court has stated that the matter will be heard in the next two to three days. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar took note of the submissions made by Abhinav Chandrachud, who is appearing for the influencer, and assured that the plea would be listed within a few days. Abhinav sought an urgent hearing on the grounds that Allahbadia has been summoned by the Assam Police today.
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YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia is facing multiple charges over his alleged distasteful remarks made during a web show, India’s Got Latent. He has been booked under various sections, including Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 Act, for insulting a woman's modesty through words, gestures, sounds, or objects. The charges also include intrusion of a woman's privacy.
Who Is Abhinav Chandrachud?
Abhinav Chandrachud is the son of former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and is a practising lawyer at the Bombay High Court. He completed his Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) and Master of the Science of Law (JSM) from Stanford Law School in California where he was a Franklin Family Scholar.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Abhinav graduated from Government Law College in Mumbai in 2008 and later pursued his Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, where he was a Dana Scholar. He previously worked as an associate attorney at Gibson and the global law firm Dunn & Crutcher.
According to Google Books, Abhinav is also the author of Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017) and Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-1989 (2018). He has also written opinion articles in several newspapers in India.