Court orders probe into ‘AIB Roast’ show

A Girgaum court on Thursday ordered police to investigate and register an FIR against 14 celebrities involved in the controversial “AIB Roast” show performed in a stadium in Mumbai on Jan 20, a lawyer said.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate C S Baviskar directed police in Tardeo to probe the matter against officials of the National Sports Club of India (NSCI), where the event was hosted, AIB Roast and multiple film personalities after a criminal complaint was lodged by social activist Santosh Daundkar.

Lawyer Abha Singh said the accused named were NSCI president Jayantilal Shah, secretary-general Ravinder Aggarwal, Karan Johar, Arjun Kapoor, Ranvir Singh, Rohan Joshi, Tanmay Bhatt, Gursimran Khamba, Ashish Shakya, Aditi Mittal, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, flim critic Rajeev Masand and others. IANS