Munawar Faruqui information: The 32-year-old grew to become well-liked as a slapstick comedian on YouTube
Slapstick comedian and actuality TV star Munawar Faruqui was amongst 14 folks detained throughout a raid at a hookah parlour in Mumbai, police mentioned on Wednesday.
The Large Boss 17 winner was later launched, information company ANI mentioned quoting a Mumbai police official.
In response to police,the hookah parlour within the metropolis’s Fort space was being run illegally and Rs 4,400 in money and 9 hookah pots value Rs 13,500 have been seized throughout the raid on Tuesday.
The raid started round 10.30 pm on Tuesday and continued until 5 am of Wednesday, an official mentioned.
A case has been registered beneath sections of the Cigarettes and Different Tobacco Merchandise Act. The police are nonetheless conducting a search on the location.
”In the course of the raid, the police discovered slapstick comedian Munawar Faruqui and others smoking hookahs on the joint. We even have a video of their act. We detained Faruqui and others, however they have been later allowed to go because the sections slapped towards them have been bailable,” a senior police official instructed information company PTI.
Faruqui and different have been served notices and allowed to depart, he added.
The 32-year-old actuality TV star grew to become well-liked as a slapstick comedian and rapper on YouTube a couple of years in the past.
He first made headlines in 2021 when he spent a month in jail after complaints have been filed towards him for hurting non secular sentiments after he made remarks on Hindu deities throughout a stand-up present.
Following the outrage, the comic introduced he would stop comedy after 12 of his exhibits have been cancelled inside two months as a result of threats from right-wing teams.
In 2022, Mr Faruqui made a comeback via actuality TV present ”Lock Upp”, the place individuals lived in a ”jail” and carried out duties to earn cash as ”inmates”. He gained the present’s first season.