New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Social media influencer and YouTuber Ajit Bharti has approached the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the SC/ST Act case registered against him over his comments concerning Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, after a trial court denied him relief earlier this month.

Bharti has challenged the September 7 order of a Delhi trial court which dismissed his anticipatory bail application.

The trial court had declined Bharti's plea after holding that the material placed on record prima facie disclosed the ingredients of an offence under Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

It had further held that the bar under Section 18 of the SC/ST Act applied and, conseq...