Police in Uttarakhand will soon arrest YouTube star Bobby Kataria after he pulled off a liquor stunt in the State capital, Dehradun, drinking alcohol in the middle of the road.
According to the police statement, the YouTuber drank alcohol blocking traffic in the middle of the road. He sat on a chair and continued to drink and also allegedly threatened the police. The incident took place months before the Dehradun police decided to make an arrest.
Cantt police have obtained a non-bailable warrant from the district court against Kataria, SHO Rajendra Singh Rawat said.
Sections 342, 336, 290, and 510 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) along with section 67 IT Act were used to register the case. Police have also been dispatched to Haryana and other locations in the state in order to arrest him.
The incident is not the first of its kind
This is not the first time Kataria has been on the wrong side of the law. He was banned from flying with SpiceJet airlines, earlier this year. A viral video circulated on Twitter showed Kataria smoking inside a SpiceJet flight on January 1, 2022. The airline later explained that the action was taken due to the passenger being put on a no-fly list for 15 days from February 2022.
Bobby Kataria, the accused YouTube influencer, however, denied the allegations and claimed it was a dummy plane and part of his Dubai shooting. “The video in which I was seen smoking is not a normal airplane, it was a dummy plane and that was a part of my shooting in Dubai. Taking lighter inside the plane is not allowed,” said Kataria. “that was a part of my shooting in Dubai. I want to ask everyone; how can a lighter make its way into an airplane? It would be detected by a scanner. A cigarette still one can carry, but not a lighter. It was shot in 2019 or 2020”, he added.
