On Friday, a Chennai-based YouTuber was arrested by the police for allegedly live-streaming PUBG, which is ban in India. While live-streaming the YouTuber was using vulgar and obscene language towards women.
YouTuber, Madan Kumar was on the run and the police arrested him in Dharmapuri, which is six hours away from Chennai, said police officials. His wife, Krithika, who was the administrator of the youtube channel, was earlier arrested in Chennai.
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According to the investigators, the couple’s YouTube channel has nearly eight lakh subscribers, maximum of them are minors. The arrest was based on the complaint registered by a Chennai resident against the YouTube channels – Madan, Toxic Madan 18+, PUBG Madan Girl Fan, Richie Gaming YT, which are administrated by the couple.
The complaint named some titles in the channel like “Madan angry at his girlfriend, Strictly 18+, Tamil, PUBGM, and Richie GamiNg.” These all channels allegedly portrayed women in a vulgar way and violated privacy and dignity, via these channels they also used to trigger perversion among children who watch the videos.
As many followers of the channel are minors, the complaint also includes a ban on the channel besides action against Madan Kumar. On Thursday, while hearing the anticipatory bail plea, the Madras High Court said that it was “shocked to hear the recorded conversations.”
A police officer told a media organization, “We are not sure any of his subscribers would come forward to file a complaint. The vulgar talk on social media amounts to public nuisance. We are examining the details of violation of any in terms of PUBG or similar games.”
The police officer further added that Madan Kumar has made a fortune with his income from YouTube. The officer said, “He appears to have earned around three lakh a month. He owns three luxury cars, two of them are Audis.”