Courier boy gave wrong script of AIB Roast for NOC

A year after the AIB Knockout show controversy blew up it has now emerged that there was a goof up on part of the delivery boy while handing in scripts from Only Much Louder OML to the Rangbhoomi Prayog Parinirikshan Mandal a wing of the Department of Cultural Affairs which is the nodal agency to grant licenses for stage shows in Mumbai OML is the event management firm that handles work for All India Bakchod AIBrsquos showsRanveer Singh Karan Johar and Arjun Kapoor in a still from the controversial AIB RoastIn December 2014 AIB the standup act had conducted a roast comedy show at Worlirsquos NSCI Stadium to a ticketed audience of nearly 4000 However when the show was uploaded on YouTube in January 2015 some took offence to the showrsquos content and lodged FIRs against its organizers and celebrity participants which included Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor and Karan JoharDuring an inquiry it emerged that although OML had got a script for the show cleared the script belonged to a previous performance called The Royal Turds 2014 and not the Roast At the time AIB had said that they didnrsquot know that a wrong script had reached the scrutiny board since that was OMLrsquos responsibilityThe Tardeo police which is investigating the case says in a statement recorded by an OML employee that it was a delivery boy named Shahjad Sayyed who was given the task of getting approvals for the script from the Cultural Affairs Department Sayyed by mistake picked up another old script and sent it for approval while the original script was never printedA police officer from Tardeo police station who is privy to the investigation said According to the statement provided by an employee of OML Sayyed had been asked to pick up a script from the desk of an OML staffer While Sayyed picked up a script that was kept on the desk the OML staffer had actually asked him to take a printout of the script and carry that for approval By mistake however another script was sent for approval which was different from the script used in the show We now want to know from the actors who performed at the event if they were shown any script before the event and if that had changed at allYes a courier boy did deliver the wrong script to the scrutiny board which was to offer us an NOC This is what has been recorded in a statement to the police by an OML employee We do 300 shows a year several scripts are lying around at our office The mixup happened an OML spokesperson told middayHowever the spokesperson added that the case is not against the licensing of the show nor over the wrong script getting the NOC but about the content of the YouTube show When you go on YouTube you are doing so willingly You canrsquot watch a show for two hours and then say you are offended We are closely following the case and we are hopeful that a good precedent will be setMeanwhile on Saturday morning the Tardeo police claimed that they had summoned actor Arjun Kapoor and filmmaker Karan Johar with regard to the case They added that they were likely to send summons to Deepika Padukone who was in the audience and actor Ranveer Singh as well The actors are presently not in town but we expect them to record their statements soon said the officerFilm critic Rajeev Masand who was a Roaster on the show told sunday midday I donrsquot want to comment on the mixup of scripts We signed up for it and we knew what we were doing and what we were saying Itrsquos naiumlve to think that in times of cell phones nobody outside would know what was going on on stage We didnrsquot anticipate this severe a backlash