A Delhi court issues fresh bailable warrants against YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in a long-running criminal defamation case stemming from a video published on his channel. The warrants are issued after earlier attempts to serve summons or warrants did not work due to issues about where Rathee could be located.
The case is brought by Vikas—reported as Vikas Sanskrityayan by The Hindu and Vikas Pandey by other outlets—who accuses Rathee of defamation over alleged content in the video. Coverage notes that the matter has been pending for years, with repeated difficulties in service since around 2019 and later developments involving Rathee being outside India.
Outlets largely focus on the court action and the practical challenge of serving process. They also place the case in the wider context of related legal proceedings involving Arvind Kejriwal’s earlier retweet of the same or linked content, which reportedly came up before the Supreme Court. Different outlets vary in how much background they provide beyond the warrant order and what they highlight about Rathee’s location and the case timeline.
