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AIB in a soup for making woman's number viral

Jaipur police has registered a FIR against the four core members of AIB, including Tanmay Bhatt.

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Pestered by incessant phone calls, life has become nightmarish for this 28-year-old woman from Jaipur. The trouble began with All India Bakchod (AIB) posting her contact number on their YouTube channel in a video in the month of May. The woman has since been receiving over 50 calls a day with people asking for Rohan Joshi, a fellow member of AIB. Jaipur police has registered a FIR against the four core members of AIB, including Tanmay Bhatt.

On May 17, AIB had posted a video "If Apps were people", in which Supriya, a character in the video wants to sleep but the apps on her phone turn out to be a major distraction. At 4.34 minutes of the video, one of the characters in the video spells out the coordinates of Rohan, another character in the video. Incidentally, the phone number turned out to be of one Rohina Chhabra, a resident of Karnivihar area of Jaipur in Rajasthan.

A copy of the FIR which is in possession of DNA, names Tanmay Bhatt, Ashish Shakya, Rohan Joshi, and Gursimran Khamba as the accused in the case. They have been booked under Section 66 C (Punishment for identity theft) of the Information Technology Act registered at Karnivihar police station.

"All of a sudden one day I began being bombarded with calls. I realised something was amiss when one of the callers informed me that my number was displayed in an AIB video. The abusive language in the video made matters worse, as callers demanded to speak to Rohan. It was traumatic.

I had to take care of my newborn and was fed up of informing the callers that it was a wrong number," said Chhabra.

When contacted, the AIB spokesperson said, "As soon as the police informed us about the incident, we made sure that the subtitle with the contact number is blurred and the dialogue is beeped. We agree that it was a mistake but we did not intend to harm anyone."

Ashok Kumar Gupta, Superintendent of Police, Jaipur West, said, "We will inquire about the incident and adequate action will be taken in this regard."

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