The Supreme Court has ordered Samay Raina and his team to organise two fundraisers every month for differently-abled people. The court was hearing a plea against Samay Raina for violating the dignity of persons with disabilities
Samay Raina
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered stand-up comedian and content creator Samay Raina, along with four other comedians, to organise at least two fundraising events every month. The court told them to contribute a corpus received from the fundraisers for the treatment of persons with disabilities. This came when the court was hearing a plea filed by the Cure SMA India Foundation, which sought action against content that violates the dignity of persons with disabilities.
SC orders Samay Raina to organise fundraisers
According to Bar and Bench, the order was passed by a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. In its directive, the court stated that the influencers must organise at least two events per month to raise funds for the treatment of differently-abled. The court further noted that Samay and others will also have to invite differently-abled persons to their shows and share their success stories.
The bench highlighted that "these memorable events will have a widespread effect" if Samay and his team show repentance and the ability to contribute to the cause of the specially abled.
The bench told the influencers, "We will not impose a fine on you, provided you come up with a proposal for a donation to a very good institution. We don’t want to impose a penal burden, but you must discharge a social responsibility."
It further added, "The private respondents have proposed to organise at least two events a month to generate funds. They have also sought permission of this court to invite the persons whose success stories have been brought on record to these shows. We leave it to the respondents to pursue and invite the specially abled persons to the shows for the cause of generating funds."
What Samay Raina said?
The directions came against the allegations that Samay Raina and the comedians made insensitive remarks about disability and the financial burden faced by SMA patients.
During on of the episodes of his show India’s Got Latent, Raina had referred to a two-month-old SMA patient who required a Rs 16-crore injection, the cost of the one-time gene therapy Zolgensma. He followed it with a joke implying how a mother might view her husband if such an amount is suddenly credited in her bank account.
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