YouTube LLC on Friday, April 12, 2024 informed the Madras High Court of having blocked a video uploaded by Savukku Media Private Limited on its YouTube channel on March 4 accusing popular movie production house Lyca Productions Private Limited of having used money generated from smuggling of drugs.
The submission was made before Justice C.V. Karthikeyan during the hearing of a civil suit filed by the production house demanding damages of ₹1 crore from Savukku Media as well as its promoter ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar for having linked the plaintiff with drug smuggling without any basis.
After recording the oral submission made by a counsel representing YouTube, the judge insisted on putting the submission in writing too by June 13 and extended till then an interim injunction already granted by the court restraining the YouTuber concerned from making further defamatory allegations.