Ranveer Allahbadia case: In keeping with their daily schedule of hearing a bunch of cases, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna’s bench convened at 10.30 am on Friday. One case in the list was the high-voltage ‘India’s Got Latent’ controversy concerning YouTuber and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia or ‘BeerBiceps’.
As soon as the commencement of proceedings, a lawyer representing Mr Allahbadia stood up before the court. The man has not argued a case in the Supreme Court for the last eight years and six months but his presence drew attention to one and all. He was Abhinav Chandrachud, a Bombay High Court lawyer and son of former CJI DY Chandrachud.
Who Is Abhinav Chandrachud Father
Abhinav Chandrachud’s family name carries weight in India’s judicial circles. The father had earlier been appointed Chief Justice, Allahabad High Court, in May 2016, prior to taking up the position as Chief Justice of India. In fact, even during his father’s glorious run in the judiciary, Abhinav had never argued a case in the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice (retired) Chandrachud recounted a moment involving his two sons, Abhinav and Chintan, at last year’s farewell address. He remembered one time that he called them to the Supreme Court, hoping to see more of them. They both declined, however, citing principles of professional integrity.
In an earlier NDTV interview, ex-Chief Justice (retd) Chandrachud had also pondered on his career. Between 1982 and 1985, he refrained from appearing in any Indian court while pursuing his studies at Harvard. His father, Justice YV Chandrachud, was the longest-serving Chief Justice in India.
Abhinav Chandrachud is a scholar and writer. He possesses a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) and a Master of the Science of Law (JSM) from Stanford Law School, where he was a Franklin Family Scholar.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he graduated in 2008 from Government Law College, Mumbai. He pursued his LL.M at Harvard Law School as a Dana Scholar afterward. He has also worked as an associate attorney at the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Besides legal practice, he has also written a number of books, including 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). His articles have been printed in leading newspapers in India.
The Ranveer Allahbadia Controversy Case
On Saturday, the Mumbai police called Ranveer Allahbadia for interrogation over some controversial statements made by him in a YouTube show. The police had initially called him on Thursday, but after he did not show up, they called him again for Friday.
Police teams from both Mumbai and Assam went “on Friday” to Mr Allahbadia’s home in Versova to find it locked.
The controversy arose from comments made by Mr Allahbadia on Samay Raina’s now-defunct YouTube chat show, ‘India’s Got Latent’. Not surprisingly, his calls for crude and obscene comments regarding women evoked widespread outrage and many complaints.
The Assam Police team investigating the matter had a meeting with officials from Maharashtra’s Cyber Department on Thursday. They are mainly interested in summoning both Allahbadia and YouTubers Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh, and Apoorva Makhija, who appeared in the infamous episode.
The Supreme Court has not yet fixed a date by which to hear the referred petition, in which Abhinav Chandrachud represented virtually before Chief Justice Khanna.
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