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Kashyap was caught for allegedly circulating false and misleading information about purported attacks on migrant labourers working in Tamil Nadu and was arrested from Bettiah in Bihar on March 18.
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Krishna Murari and Sanjay Karol today issued notice in the plea by Youtuber Manish Kashyap who has been booked by the Tamil Nadu police for sharing fake videos of attack on Bihar based migrant labourers.
Court has sought responses from the Central government and the States of Bihar and Tamil Nadu on a plea by the Youtuber seeking consolidation of First Information Reports (FIR) registered against him.
The case has been listed on April 21 now for further hearing.
Last week, Supreme Court refused to provide any interim relief to Kashyap, after Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing on behalf of the state of Tamil Nadu clarified before the bench that Kashyap was already in custody.
Kashyap had also sought clubbing of the FIRs filed against him. On March 5, a Madurai court had sent the YouTuber to judicial custody till April 19.
Notably, another bench of the top court had recently granted relief to another accused, namely Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prashant Umrao, in an FIR over the same issue.
In Umrao's matter, the bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice Pankaj Mithal issued notice and modified the condition imposed by the Madras High Court while granting him anticipatory bail which required him to appear before the police for 15 days.
Besides this, the top court also passed an ad interim order that the anticipatory bail granted by the High Court would be applicable to any other FIRs registered in the state of Tamil Nadu with respect to the same cause of action.
The Top Court had also asked Umrao to tender an apology, which his counsel, Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra said, that he would tender.
Case Title: Manish Kashyap vs. Union of India and Ors
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