YouTuber Elvish Yadav’s house attacked in Gurugram, over dozen shots fired by masked men News Air Insight

Three masked assailants allegedly opened fire outside the residence of YouTuber and Bigg Boss OTT winner Elvish Yadav in Gurugram’s Sector 57 early Sunday morning. The incident occurred around 5:30 AM. According to Sandeep Kumar, PRO of Gurugram Police, more than a dozen rounds were fired. Yadav was not present at the residence during the attack.

Police have launched an investigation, and further details are awaited.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted an interim stay on legal proceedings against the controversial YouTuber in connection with a rave party case, where snake venom and other illegal drugs were allegedly supplied and consumed.

Elvish Yadav has been chargesheeted under Sections 9, 39, 48A, 49, 50 and 51 of Wildlife Protection Act and Sections 284, 289 and 120B of IPC and Sections 8, 22, 29, 30 and 32 of NDPS Act in the FIR lodged at Police Station Sector-49, Noida, District Gautam Buddh Nagar. A summons order has also been issued by the First Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gautam Buddh Nagar.

Yadav challenged the chargesheet and the proceedings on the ground that the informant was not a competent person to lodge an FIR under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. It is pleaded that no snake, narcotic or psychotropic substance has been recovered from the applicant.Further, it was pleaded that, “It is a well-known fact that the applicant is an influential person and appears on several reality shows on television, and inevitably, the involvement of the applicant in the instant FIR attracted great attention from the media.Consequently, influenced by the aforesaid attention, the police officers attempted to make the case more sensitive by invoking Sections 27 and 27A of the NDPS Act immediately after arresting the applicant.