Sumit Kumar Singh, who grabbed headlines a few days ago after he posted a video on YouTube in which he was seen randomly kissing girls and running away in Cannaught Place, has been arrested, along with his college friend, on Thursday night, police said on Friday.
According to Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), the Crime Branch has apprehended prankster ‘The Crazy Sumit’ and his associate, who uploaded infamous kissing girls video on YouTube. “The alleged persons, Sumit Kumar Singh (20 yrs) and Satyajeet Kadian (25 yrs) have been arrested from Farrukh Nagar in Gurugram.”
Police said they have recovered two laptops, one video camera, wireless mikes from their possession. “Both are pursuing BCA from a private college,” said officials.
A case was registered last week against Sumit Verma under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of IPC and Section 67 (punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of IT Act after several netizens expressed their anger over the circulation of the video which was brought down later on the video-sharing platform.
Sumit’s YouTube channel over the years got over 1.5 lakh subscribers. YouTube awarded him the trophy for surpassing 1,00,000 subscribers and the trophy was recovered by police from Sumit’s house.
During sustained interrogation, Sumit disclosed that he created his channel YouTube in the name of ‘The Crazy Sumit’ for one and half years. Three years back, he met with an accident and got bedridden for two months, said police officials, adding that it was during this period, he used to watch prank videos on YouTube. “After watching such videos, he got the idea to earn money by making his own prank videos. Till date, he has made 35-40 pranks videos,” said officials.
In December 2016, he planned to make the video of kissing unknown girls and run away. In order to make this video, he contacted his friend Satyajeet and later on, other common friends
The kissing girls video was shot by Satyajeet, also a prankster who has a channel/account in the name of ‘DC Prank’. It was uploaded by him on January 1, 2017 on YouTube. But on getting negative comments, he removed the video. However, by that time other users dowloaded it and posted it again on YouTube.