Remember ‘The Crazy Sumit‘, guys? The one who had the ‘crazy’ idea of a prank which involved kissing random girls on street and running away? Yes, the one who’s crap we blatantly called crap. He, along with his camera guy, was detained by the cops.
21-year-old Crazy Sumit aka Sumit Kumar Singh and his cameraman Satyajeet Kadian aka DC Prank, were detained by Delhi Police on January 13.
During questioning, Sumit claimed that the women in the clip were crew members and they knew what was happening. He also said that they made such short films with the sole objective of attracting views on YouTube that would be translated into earnings.
The cops let the two off and they are waiting to record the statements of the women seen in the video. But even if it was staged, the Police say that they would still book them for engaging in obscenity in public places.
The BCA students made these videos and have been earning through it. Kadian told the Police that they have, in the past month earned around Rs 70,000 for the kiss-and-run prank. (Wait, what?)
Joint commissioner Ravindra Yadav revealed that Sumit had uploaded more than 35 clips on his YouTube account since last year. And has over one lakh hits on his channel.
“A team led by DCP Bhisham Singh found that the videos were intended to shock the viewers.”
It certainly did shock the viewers. After all, under the garb of prank, what was shown in the video qualifies as assault.
Police reached out to YouTube to join the investigation. And, their parent company Google’s spokesperson said,
After the video received a lot of flak, Sumit took it down and had sent us an apology video. Which was taken down, too. When Times of India spoke to him, he upheld that he would stop making such videos only if the censor board stopped him. (Are you kidding, me?)
According to a DNA report, Sumit also told the Police
“that abroad, it’s become a trend to shoot shocking videos that could be vulgar and even here, they earn more money if they produces such videos.”
What happened to the strings of ‘sorrys’ he said in apology video and the promise that he wouldn’t make something like this again?
Source: Times of India, DNA