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India's Got Latent: Ranveer Allahbadia's 'dirty' comments spark massive row in India

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Ranveer Allahbadia has been in the eye of a storm in India over the past week .

He asked a contestant the question: "Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life or join in once and stop it forever?" The comments, made on the show India 's Got Latent , sparked massive outrage, police cases and death threats.

The Supreme Court in its recent order banned him from posting content on social media.

Some fear the controversy will be used as a reason to justify further regulating content creation.

After the controversy, a parliamentary panel was considering making laws around digital content stricter.

Mr Gupta says the state already has a "tremendous amount of power" to prosecute people accused of flouting laws.

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