New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain YouTube Manish Kashyap’s petition to club first information reports registered against him in Bihar and Tamil Nadu over his role in spreading fake news on attacks on Bihar migrants in the southern state.“We can’t be lending our ears to this,” a bench of Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice P.S. Narasimha, and Justice J.B. Pardiwala said, according to LiveLaw.The Supreme Court bench had strong words for Kashyap.“You have a stable state, the state of Tamil Nadu. You circulate anything to create disquiet,” the bench said, orally.Later, it asked, “What is to be done? You produce these fake videos…”The bench allowed Kashyap to approach high courts with his plea.In addition to FIRs, Kashyap was also charged under the National Security Act by the Tamil Nadu police.Kashyap’s lawyer Senior Advocate Maninder Singh said that because he had based his videos on media reports on mainstream papers like Dainik Bhaskar, if he is to be arrested under the National Security Act then journalists of other newspapers also need to be detained likewise. He also cited the example of Manipur journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhemcha, charged under the NSA.Kashyap, however, did not solely relay information in news reports.In a report for The Wire, Alishan Jafri had written on Kashyap who calls himself a ‘citizen journalist’ from Bihar. In the first week of March, 2023, had made and uploaded fake news videos that showed migrant workers from Bihar being ‘attacked’ in Tamil Nadu.Jafri found that Kashyap was associated with the Hindu Putra Sangathan, a Hindutva outfit accused several times of anti-Muslim violence and with numerous cases against it in Patna and Hajipur.In 2019, Kashyap was accused of attacking Kashmiri shawl vendors in Patna’s Lhasa market following the Pulwama terror attack. His name also surfaced in connection with the violence against Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters.Kashyap had also made several videos on the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case and amplified conspiracy theories regarding the case.In court today, counsels for Tamil Nadu and Bihar said that the FIRs in the two states dealt with different matters.“The first FIR [in Patna] was with respect to a video shot by him in Patna, which he uploaded by misrepresenting as shot from Tamil Nadu and alleging that Biharis are getting attacked there; the second FIR was with respect to a video shot by him from near Patna airport, with fake interviews of persons claiming as migrants who have fled from Tamil Nadu; third one was with respect to another fake video where he claimed that he was arrested by Tamil Nadu police,” LiveLaw reported, quoting the counsel for Bihar.For Tamil Nadu, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal said that Kashyap was not a journalist “and was a politician who has contested the elections in Bihar.”