Update: Following complaints from the Christian Community, comedy group All India Bakchod issued an unconditional apology to the archdiocese of Bombay and the Christian community for any offence caused to religious sentiments during their AIB Knockout Show. You can read the entire text here. The group also added that that during our interaction with the archdiocese, both parties agreed that "these matters are best solved by frank, patient conversation, not by pointless rabble-rousing or politicization or by taking up adversarial positions for the sake of eyeballs." Earlier: YouTube has been named in a First Information Report (FIR) in Pune for distributing the controversial AIB Knockout video. Actors Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha, director Karan Johar and 14 others have also been named in an FIR. Comedy team All India Bakchod took down its video of its AIB Knockout show following police and government inquiry. The FIR has been filed under Sections 292 (Distribution of obscene content or lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest), Section 294 (Obscene Act in public place) of the Indian Penal Code and section 67a of IT Act (Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form). MediaNama tried contacting Bund Garden police station where the FIR was filed, but an officer directed us to contact them later. We will update once we have a statement. NDTV's report says that the complainant Wazir Shaikh claims "Ranveer Singh publicly kissed Deepika Padukone and she responded. Both behaved obscenely." The FIR in Pune finds fault with this…
