The Supreme Court on Wednesday took note of fresh detention of YouTuber Shankar alias ‘Savukku’ Shankar under the stringent Goondas Act by the Tamil Nadu Police in a ganja possession case lodged in May.
The YouTuber was detained again by the state police on Monday.
Four days before his latest detention, the Madras High Court had set aside an order of the Chennai City Police Commissioner detaining him under the Goondas Act. It had directed the Youtuber, lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison, to be set at liberty forthwith if he was not required in any other case.
Before this, the top court had on July 18 ordered his interim release.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra took note of the fresh plea of Shankar that he has been arrested again.
The bench took note of the submissions of lawyer Balaji Srinivasan that he had been arrested again by the Tamil Nadu Police after the top court and the high court ordered his release.
“I got bail in all cases and now they have again detained me again,” the lawyer said.
The CJI, while agreeing to hear the fresh plea, said, “We have granted protection from any coercive action in all the 16 FIRs. Please file a complete chart of all the FIRs as well.”