Chennai: ‘PUBG’ Madhan booked under Goondas Act

CHENNAI: The cyber-crime wing of police on Tuesday booked ‘PUBG’ Madhan, arrested for abusive content in his YouTube channels, under the Goondas Act. Madhan, who was picked up from a relative’s house in Dharmapuri on June 18 and whose application for bail was dismissed three times, was served the order at the Central Prison in Puzhal.
The order enables the authorities to keep Madhan in prison for at least a year. He can appeal against the detention within three months of order being served. Madhan’s wife Kiruthika, who was also arrested in the case and who was released from prison on bail last week, visited the commissioner’s office on Tuesday and lodged a complaint against those spreading malicious information against her husband and herself.
Later, she told reporters that she had never given a voice-over to the videos uploaded by her husband. “My husband and I are going through the legal formalities through our counsel. There are four complaints lodged against my husband, but the media is saying more than 200 complaints have been lodged against him. We live in a rented house and we don’t have any luxury car except an Audi A-6,” she said.
Police on June 16 registered a case against Madhan and his wife under IPC sections, Information Technology Act and The Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act, 1986, based on a complaint from a Vadapalani resident. While Kiruthika was nabbed on June 16 from Salem, Madhan was picked up two days later. Madhan, a civil engineering drop-out, in 2019 floated ‘Toxic Madan 18+’, ‘Madan’, ‘PUBG Madan girl fan’, ‘Madhan’, and ‘Richie Gaming’ on YouTube.