“Samay Raina Donates ₹10 Lakh for Assam Flood Relief; Why the Old FIR Story Needs an Update”

Samay Raina’s contribution to Assam’s flood-relief effort produced an unusual intersection of philanthropy, internet culture and an older legal controversy.

The comedian and content creator donated ₹10 lakh to the Assam Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, with the transfer formally acknowledged by the Assam Chief Minister’s Office on August 8, 2026. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also personally thanked Raina for supporting relief efforts during a difficult period for the state.

The contribution itself is straightforward and officially documented.

What requires more explanation is what happened next.

Some users replying to Sarma’s acknowledgement immediately brought up a February 2025 FIR registered by Guwahati Police in connection with India’s Got Latent and asked for the case against Raina to be withdrawn.

That created a neat social-media narrative: a comedian once booked in Assam was now donating money to help the state.

The legal history, however, is more complicated than that one-line contrast suggests.

The ₹10 lakh donation was officially acknowledged

The Assam Chief Minister’s Office publicly shared details of Raina’s contribution, identifying him by name and acknowledging the ₹10 lakh received for the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

The transaction information circulated with the official acknowledgement showed the contribution coming from Samay Raina Productions Private Limited.

Sarma subsequently thanked Raina directly, writing that he had contributed to Assam’s relief efforts during a difficult period.

At the time, around 1.55 lakh people across 13 districts were reported to remain affected by flooding, while the season’s reported death toll had reached 98.

That humanitarian context should remain the primary story. The FIR connection became a secondary discussion only after users began raising it beneath the chief minister’s posts.

Why was an Assam FIR registered against Samay Raina?

The connection goes back to February 10, 2025.

Himanta Biswa Sarma announced at the time that Guwahati Police had registered Cyber PS Case No. 03/2025 against several people associated with India’s Got Latent, including Samay Raina, Ranveer Allahbadia, Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh and Apoorva Mukhija.

The case followed controversy surrounding an episode of Raina’s YouTube show in which Allahbadia made a sexually explicit remark that triggered complaints and wider scrutiny.

Sarma’s announcement said the case involved allegations of promoting obscenity and sexually explicit discussion, citing provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Information Technology Act and other laws.

Raina later travelled to Guwahati and appeared before the Crime Branch in April 2025. Joint Police Commissioner Ankur Jain confirmed that his statement was recorded in connection with the case.

So when the same Assam chief minister publicly thanked Raina in August 2026, users understandably remembered that history.

The ‘withdraw the FIR’ comments were real but they were user reactions

A crucial editorial distinction is necessary here.

Sarma did not publicly say the ₹10 lakh donation would influence any criminal proceeding. Nor is there evidence that Raina made the donation seeking legal relief.

Instead, published screenshots and contemporaneous coverage show that individual social-media users responded to the chief minister’s post by asking that the FIR be withdrawn.

Those comments can be reported as a documented online reaction, but they should not be elevated into a government position or treated as evidence of any connection between the donation and the legal case.

There is no verified basis for suggesting a quid pro quo.

A Supreme Court ruling six days later complicates the story

There has since been another major development involving Raina.

On August 14, 2026, the Supreme Court quashed criminal cases against Raina and four other comedians arising from insensitive remarks concerning persons with disabilities.

A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana passed the order after noting efforts by the comedians to promote awareness and make amends.

This development is important but it should not be inaccurately merged with the older Assam obscenity FIR.

The August 14 proceeding identified Raina alongside Vipul Goyal, Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar and Nishant Tanwar and concerned disability-related remarks.

The February 2025 Assam case, by contrast, was Cyber PS Case No. 03/2025 and named a different group, including Ranveer Allahbadia, Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh and Apoorva Mukhija.

That difference matters.

Some subsequent reports loosely described the Supreme Court development as all India’s Got Latent FIRs being quashed, but the strongest legal reporting reviewed for this article specifically describes the August 14 order as concerning cases over disability-related remarks.

Based on the material available, The Celebrity Hour cannot responsibly state that the February 2025 Guwahati Cyber Police FIR was automatically extinguished by that order.

What the Supreme Court record tells us about the Assam investigation

An earlier Supreme Court order from April 21, 2025 provides firmer information about the Guwahati case.

In proceedings brought by Ranveer Allahbadia, the Solicitor General appearing for Maharashtra and Assam told the Supreme Court that investigation in Maharashtra concerning Allahbadia was complete. As for Assam, the Court sought confirmation that his investigation there had also been completed and that he was no longer required for further questioning.

The Court allowed interim protection to continue at that stage.

That order proves the Assam FIR had entered Supreme Court proceedings, but it does not by itself establish that Cyber PS Case No. 03/2025 was subsequently withdrawn or quashed as against every person named in it.

Unless an updated police record or court order specifically confirms that status, it is safer not to declare the case closed.

The bigger story is about two completely separate events

Raina’s ₹10 lakh donation and the 2025 legal controversy are connected primarily because they both involve Assam.

The donation was an independently documented contribution to flood relief.

The FIR arose approximately 18 months earlier from content aired on India’s Got Latent.

Internet users linked the two when the Assam chief minister thanked Raina, but no verified evidence shows that either Raina or Sarma formally tied the humanitarian contribution to the criminal proceeding.

That distinction protects what should remain the central fact: money was contributed to help people affected by flooding, irrespective of an older dispute between authorities and creators.

The Celebrity Hour Take

The most interesting part of this story is how quickly social media can turn two separate facts into a single narrative.

“Assam filed a case against Samay; Samay later donated ₹10 lakh to Assam” is memorable and naturally invites jokes about withdrawing the FIR. But good reporting has to go one step further and separate coincidence, online humour and legal reality.

The donation can be verified. The old Guwahati FIR can be verified. The public requests for withdrawal can also be verified. What cannot be responsibly claimed, without a specific order, is that the donation affected the case or that a later Supreme Court ruling in a different set of proceedings necessarily disposed of Cyber PS Case No. 03/2025.

That legal precision is more useful to readers than simply reproducing the most viral interpretation of the chief minister’s thank-you post.

Sources & Verification

This report was prepared by independently checking the Assam Chief Minister’s Office acknowledgement of Samay Raina’s ₹10 lakh donation, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s public response, contemporaneous flood reporting, the chief minister’s February 2025 announcement of the Guwahati FIR, Raina’s subsequent appearance before the Guwahati Crime Branch and relevant Supreme Court proceedings.

The Celebrity Hour also reviewed the Supreme Court development of August 14, 2026. Legal reporting shows that those cases concerned disability-related remarks and involved a different group of respondents from the February 2025 Assam obscenity case. For that reason, this article does not state that the older Guwahati FIR has been withdrawn or quashed without a case-specific order confirming it.