YouTuber Mukhtar arrested in two criminal cases, police inform Madras High Court

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The Chennai cyber crime cell on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) informed the Madras High Court that YouTuber Mukhtar Ahmed (50) was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a criminal case booked against him for having indulged in character assassination by making sexually coloured remarks against a woman functionary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also in connection with another criminal case.

State Public Prosecutor R. John Sathyan made the submission before Justice C. Kumarappan during the hearing of a couple of anticipatory bail petitions filed by the YouTuber in two different criminal cases pending against him. When the petitioner’s counsel wanted to know in which case his client had been arrested, the SPP said, he had been arrested in both the cases but was yet to be remanded to judicial custody.

The judge recorded the submission and closed both the anticipatory bail petitions.

In his advance bail plea in the Chennai cyber crime case, the petitioner had stated that he started his career as a digital content creator and then served as a senior correspondent and news presenter for multiple television news channels. He, however, accused the mainstream media of not letting journalists be independent.

“As several mainstream channels acted according to the will and wish of the ruling party, and never gave the fundamental right of journalists and media organizations to report, investigate, and disseminate information independently,” he chose to become an independent Tamil journalist.

Stating that he had started a YouTube channel in July 2024, the petitioner said that his interview with Tiruchi Suriyaa, son of DMK Rajya Sabha member Tiruchi Siva, recorded in the first week of May this year and published on the YouTube channel on May 22, 2026 had become a subject matter of controversy.

The petitioner denied the allegation of having indulged in character assassination against the complainant and instead accused her o