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The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a \u20b910 lakh cost on comedian Samay Raina for failing to comply with its earlier directions, saying he had “taken the court for a ride” by making false statements. The top court directed Raina to deposit the amount within two weeks and warned that coercive action would follow if he failed to do so.<\/p>
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice JV Mohana said that despite assurances made before the court, Raina’s subsequent conduct did not match the commitments placed on record.<\/p>
The observations came during the hearing of petitions filed by content creators Ranveer Allahbadia and Ashish Chanchlani, along with the Cure SMA Foundation, over controversial remarks made about persons with disabilities during the first season of India’s Got Latent<\/em>.<\/p> Don’t Miss:\u00a0<\/strong>CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke says he would never appear on India’s Got Latent, calls Samay Raina ‘privileged’<\/p> During the proceedings, Senior Advocate Aparajita Singh, appearing for the Cure SMA Foundation, told the court that the 28-year-old comedian had failed to contact the foundation or individuals living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), despite assurances previously made before the bench.<\/p> “Samay Raina is doing shows, but has not contacted the SMA Foundation or persons suffering from SMA as per the court\u2019s order. I don\u2019t know what kind of youth icon he is. I shudder to think,” Singh said.<\/p> Taking note of the submissions, the Supreme Court imposed a cost of \u20b910 lakh on Raina.<\/p> The matter relates to two episodes of India’s Got Latent<\/em> streamed on YouTube in 2025, in which Raina mocked the treatment of patients, including an infant, suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). The videos also contained remarks targeting blind and cross-eyed individuals.<\/p> Following the controversy, the Supreme Court issued multiple summonses to the comedians and directed them to issue public apologies on their respective platforms.<\/p> During earlier hearings, Chief Justice Surya Kant had also suggested the need for a stringent law, on the lines of the SC\/ST Act, to make derogatory jokes targeting persons with disabilities a punishable offence.<\/p> “Why not consider a law along the lines of the SC\/ST Act, with clear punishment for demeaning them?” the Chief Justice had asked the Solicitor General, who agreed that humour should never come at the cost of anyone’s dignity.<\/p> In October 2025, Samay Raina and four other comedians expressed regret in a joint statement.<\/p> “We, Samay Raina, Vipul Goyal, Sonali Thakkar, Nishant Tanwar, and Balraj Ghai, deeply regret the pain caused by our show. Going forward, we will be more mindful and do our best to raise awareness about the challenges faced by the community. Your strength inspires us to grow. With respect and gratitude, Samay, Vipul, Balraj, Sonali, Nishant,” the statement read.<\/p> <\/div> #slaps #lakh #fine #Samay #Raina #court #ride #brazenly #violated #orders1784029129<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a \u20b910 lakh cost on comedian Samay Raina for failing to comply with its earlier directions, saying he had “taken the court for a ride” by making false statements. The top court directed Raina to deposit the amount within two weeks and warned that coercive action would follow if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[46143,930,2620,2052,1529,46142,16786,46141,46140,46144],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-brazenly","tag-court","tag-fine","tag-lakh","tag-orders","tag-raina","tag-ride","tag-samay","tag-slaps","tag-violated"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the case?<\/h3>