Apoorva Arora vs State (Govt. Of NCT Of Delhi)

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2024 Supreme(SC) 248

A. S. BOPANNA, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA
Apoorva Arora – Appellant
Versus
State (Govt. Of NCT Of Delhi) – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ameet Naik, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Ms. S. Lakshmi Iyer, Adv. Ms. Madhu Gadodiaya, Adv. Mr. Chirag Nayak, Adv. Ms. Sanjanthi Sajan Poovayya, Adv. Mr. Madhu Gadodiaya, Adv. Ms. Misha Rohatgi, Adv. Mr. Devansh Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Raksha Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Kajal Dalal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kakker, Adv. Mr. Raksha Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sujoy Mukharji, Adv. Ms. Tarini Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mrs. Madhavi Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Harish Salve, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ameet Naik, Adv. Mr. Raghav Shankar, Adv. Ms. Madhu Gadodia, Adv. Mr. Harshvardhan Jha, Adv. Mrs. Yugandhara Pawar Jha, AOR Mr. Sujoy Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Tarini Kulkarni, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Mishra, Adv. Mr. Aman Pathak, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Sarath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kr. Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Khanna, Adv. Mr. Karthik Jasra, Adv. Dr. Arun Kr. Yadav, Adv. Mr. Arvind Singh, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Adv. Mr. Chitransh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anuj Srinivas Udupa, Adv. Ms. Satvika Thakur, Adv. Mr. Yogi Rajpurohit, Adv. Mr. Aayush Saklani, Adv. Mr. Shubham Mishra, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. V V V Pattabhi Ram, Adv. Mr. Prashant Rawat, Adv. Mr. Purnendu Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Khushboo Aggarwal, Adv.

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JUDGMENT :

PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellants/accused are the actors, casting director, script writers, creator of the web-series ‘College Romance’¹[TVF Media Labs Private Ltd.], and the media company that owns the YouTube channel on which the web-series was hosted²[Contagious Online Media Network Pvt Ltd.]. They are sought to be investigated and prosecuted for production, transmission, and online publication of obscene and sexually-explicit material under Sections 67 and 67A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, ³[‘IT Act’ hereinafter.]. The appellants’ petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973⁴[‘CrPC’ hereinafter.] for quashing the orders of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Sessions Judge directing registration of FIR against them was dismissed by the High Court by the order impugned before us. ⁵[In Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2399 of 2020, Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2215 of 2020 and Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2214 of 2020, judgment dated 06.

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A. S. BOPANNA, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHAApoorva Arora – AppellantVersusState (Govt. Of NCT Of Delhi) – Respondent

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A. S. BOPANNA, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA
Apoorva Arora – Appellant
Versus
State (Govt. Of NCT Of Delhi) – Respondent