YouTuber Ajeet Bharti moved a Delhi Courtroom on Tuesday (August 25) in search of anticipatory bail in a case whereby he has been booked below Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Further Periods Decide Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler heard the matter at this time and as per the courtroom web site the matter is listed for additional arguments on August 31.
A duplicate of the order is awaited.
Reportedly, Bharti was booked after he allegedly made casteist remarks on his YouTube present. Nevertheless Bharti has publicly defended himself saying that he didn’t make any casteist remarks in his video however was responding to offensive feedback in opposition to his mom/sister.
The FIR has been lodged below provisions of the SC/ST Act and Sections 196(1)(c) and 351(3) (aggravated prison intimidation) BNS in addition to Info Know-how Act.
As per Part 196(1)(c) whoever organises any train, motion, drill or different comparable exercise intending that the members in such exercise shall use or be skilled to make use of prison pressure or violence or understanding it to be probably that the members in such exercise will use or be skilled to make use of prison pressure or violence, or participates in such exercise intending to make use of or be skilled to make use of prison pressure or violence or understanding it to be probably that the members in such exercise will use or be skilled to make use of prison pressure or violence, in opposition to any non secular, racial, language or regional group or caste or group and such exercise for any purpose in anyway causes or is more likely to trigger concern or alarm or a sense of insecurity amongst members of such non secular, racial, language or regional group or caste or group, shall be punished with imprisonment which can lengthen to a few years, or with advantageous, or with each.
Case title: STATE OF DELHI versus AJEET BHARTI
Bail Issues/0002114/2026
