# When Crime Gets Sold as 'Content': From a Rs 370 Biryani to Jokes About Corpses, Why Social Media Is Under Fire

> Viral clips tied to Himanshu Jangra, Sejal Pawar and comedian Pranit More have reopened a hard question — what happens when serious offences are packaged as 'content' in the chase for views and likes. Maharashtra Cyber Police has filed a case and the NCW has taken suo motu cognizance.

**Category:** Trends · **Published:** 2026-06-13 · **Source:** TrendKia
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## Three Names in One Week, One Uncomfortable Question
A Rs 370 plate of biryani, Himanshu Jangra, Pranit More and Sejal Pawar — for the past few days these names have been everywhere, from reels and YouTube videos to news sites and every social feed you scroll. If none of this has reached you yet, you are probably living a wonderfully peaceful life. Still, it helps to know what the internet is shouting about, so here is the whole episode laid out step by step — along with the question hiding behind all three stories.

## Himanshu Jangra and the Rs 370 'Account'
The story begins with Himanshu Jangra, a young man from Gurugram. He went out with a girl — whether it was a date or just a meet-up, only he can say. There he bought her a chicken biryani worth Rs 370, and then began expecting something in 'return'. He seemed to believe that spending Rs 370 from his own pocket somehow entitled him to do whatever he wished. The girl flatly refused, and that alone was enough to bruise his ego.

He then recounted this very episode on stage at Pranit More's comedy show, laughing as he told it. The audience lapped up the crude joke too — you can clearly hear young men and women giggling in the background. But the public had no appetite for this nonsense. At first glance it looks ordinary enough to ignore; after all, plenty of men show up for nothing more than a coffee with exactly this mindset. Yet it did not end there. More of Himanshu's videos surfaced, and in one of them he spoke of how the women in his household were given 'belt treatment'. If a young man of this generation takes pride in carrying forward the very wrongs of the men before him, then what is the point of his education, his good job, his exposure to the world? Himanshu has now deactivated his social media account and has also lost his job. The worrying part, though, is that he is hardly the only one who thinks this way — countless others around us probably do too.

## Sejal Pawar and a Joke at the Cost of the Dead
The world was still chewing over Himanshu's mindset when a video of Sejal Pawar, an MBBS student at Mumbai's KEM Hospital, went viral. She too had shared some deeply distasteful hospital-related anecdotes at a comedy show. From the stage, Sejal described how the size of the private parts of male cadavers — bodies donated for medical research — is mocked. This Instagram video enraged not just doctors but ordinary people as well.

As a result, the hospital administration set up a committee to submit an investigation report. Going viral also had another face: even as the controversy raged, Sejal Pawar's follower count climbed past 2 lakh. People dug up her Class 12 and NEET results too. Eventually Sejal issued a public apology and made her account private. The truth is, for a future doctor, a remark like this does not even belong in the category of a joke.

## Two Cases, Worlds Apart — But Both Wrong
Himanshu Jangra, Sejal Pawar and Pranit More all crossed every line while cracking their ugly jokes. Yet there is a vast difference between the two cases: what Sejal said was certainly insensitive, but Himanshu publicly narrated coercion against a girl — as if buying her a Rs 370 biryani had handed him a licence to do anything. The two episodes are not the same, but both are wrong.

Now place yourself in the seat of that audience clapping and laughing at Himanshu's 'joke'. Imagine you go for lunch, dinner or coffee with a teammate after office, he pays the bill, and then in the name of that same 'entitlement' he starts behaving inappropriately with you — would you be laughing then?

## The Comedian and the Platform Are Equally Guilty
The crime of serving up serious offences like sexual harassment or coercion as stage humour does not belong to the person with the warped mind alone. The comedian and the platform that fan such material in their hunger for views and likes are just as complicit. During a live show, the reins are in the hands of the host or comedian. Instead of immediately calling out something as grave as a physical relationship without consent, choosing to laugh at it, labelling it 'content' and then pushing it viral on social media amounts to legitimising a criminal mindset. When the violation of consent is turned into a punchline in the name of entertainment, it quietly erodes society's sensitivity towards women. So everyone who silently consents to such an act — and everyone who cashes in on it through a reel or video — is equally accountable for this offence.

## The Legal Net and the Women's Commission
Maharashtra Cyber Police has registered a case against comedian Pranit More, Himanshu Jangra and Dr Sejal Pawar at the nodal cyber police station and issued summons to them. Action is being taken under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS, 2023) and the IT Act. Separately, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognizance of Himanshu Jangra's statement about 'physical pleasure in exchange for a Rs 370 biryani'. As the controversy grew, the accused have paid a heavy price on both fronts — their careers and their social standing.

## This Is Not the First Time
Institutions and society have each had their say on the trio and taken whatever action they felt was right. But the real question is whether all of this will stop it from happening again. Cast your mind back to February 2025 — on Samay Raina's show 'India's Got Latent', Ranveer Allahbadia asked a contestant an extremely objectionable and obscene question about the contestant's parents and their private life. Apoorva Makhija was also present on that show. People erupted in anger at this crude joke being encouraged. FIRs were filed with police in Assam (Guwahati) and Delhi over spreading obscenity, and that episode of the show had to be pulled from YouTube. Not only that — several brand deals slipped out of these influencers' hands.

## Viral Today, Forgotten Tomorrow
This is the age of social media, where news and audio-video clips go viral in an instant. A year ago people were running a campaign against Samay Raina, Ranveer Allahbadia and Apoorva Makhija; today Himanshu Jangra, Pranit More and Sejal Pawar are their 'content'; and tomorrow someone else will be surrounded. In the digital era, the faster a topic or a person trends, the faster they are replaced. Whatever is viral today, no one will even remember tomorrow — people will simply move on and hunt for something new to feed the views and the trend. But as a part of this society, your responsibility goes beyond merely drifting along with the trend.

## The 'Good Person' at Home May Be Someone Else Outside
There is one thing worth pausing on — the person who seems perfectly decent inside our home or within our circle is not necessarily the same outside it. It is entirely possible that the same person, once past the doorstep, slips into the skin of a Himanshu Jangra or a Sejal Pawar. So often we see only someone's good side, simply because that is how they choose to appear before us. Yet that very face, written into the pages of someone else's life, could be something altogether different.

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