Supreme Court: While considering compliance in proceedings arising out of W.P. (C) No. 460 of 2025, a three-Judge Bench of Surya Kant, CJ, Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana, JJ. observed that it had “no reason to doubt” that Respondents 6—10, including comedians Samay Raina, Vipul Goyal, Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar alias Sonali Aditya Desai, and Nishant Jagdish Tanwar, had acted in brazen violation of the undertakings and statements made before the Court.
The Court further noted that the misconduct was sought to be further compounded by the failure to place on record any recent affidavit of compliance, while attempting to portray that such affidavit had already been filed, with copies being sought to be handed over only at the time of hearing.
Subject to payment of costs of ₹3 lakhs each, to be deposited with the Registry within 2 weeks, the Court granted the said respondents 15 days to file their compliance affidavits. It was made clear that if the costs are not deposited within the stipulated time, coercive action shall be taken against the person(s) in default. The matters were directed to be listed on 14 August 2026.
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[Ranveer Gautam Allahabadia v. Union of India, Writ Petition(s)(Criminal) No(s). 83 of 2025, decided on 14-7-2026]
Advocates who appeared in this case:
For the Petitioner: Aparajita Singh, Sr. Adv., Ansha Varma, Manju Jetley, Pranav Sarthi, AOR, Prgya Barsaiyan, Puprateek Singh, Prakhar Shukla, Shubham Rajhans, Shubham Kulshreshtha, Satya Rath, Chandansingh Shekhawat, Janay Jain, Vinayak Chitale, Ayush Raj, Prachi Dhingra, Udit Bajpai, Utkarsh Vatsa, Sandali Gupta, Advocates
For the Respondent: Chinmoy Sharma, Sr. A.A.G., Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General, Abhinav Mukerji, Sr. Adv. Ankit Roy, Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, Raj Bahadur Yadav, Dr N. Visakamurthy, Shuvodeep Roy, Amrish Kumar, Rajat Arora, Swikriti Singhania, Anil Kumar Mishra-i, Vidula Mehrotra, Amrish Kumar, Ansha Varma, Prashant Bhushan, AOR, Irfan Hasieb, Vijay Deora, Aditya Agarwal, Mrinalini Ramesh, Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Shrirang B. Varma, Aditya Krishna, Bharat Bagla, Aditya Krishna, Deepayan Dutta, Saurabh Tripathi, Kanu Agrawal, Anil Kaushik, A.S.G. Kanu Agrawal, Sansriti Pathak, Gaurang Bhushan, Sansriti Pathak, M. Upadhyay, Mayank Pandey, Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Kartikay Aggarwal, Raman Yadav, Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Chitvan Singhal, Nisha Bhambhani, Mariya Shahab, Sidharth Chopra, Nitin Sharma, Ranjeet Singh Sidhu, Kuber Mahajan, Abhinav Bhalla, Bihu Sharma, Archita Nigam, Nachiket Kaul, Anand Amrit Raj, Aditya Jain – I, Ankit Dhawan, Mohit Miglani, Satyam Shivaach, Shubham Kulshrestha, Avinash Lalwani, Somesh Tiwari, Utsav Saxena, Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Chitvan Singhal, Cheryl D’Souza, Advocates
