‘Vulgar, obscene’: Why Honey Singh and Badshah’s ‘Vol 1’ song is facing Delhi HC ire | Bollywood News
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Apr 2, 2026 07:54 PM IST The Delhi High Court Thursday directed to take down and block the circulation of a song by singer and producer Honey Singh and rapper Badshah, with the court finding it “inappropriate” and “unacceptable” to even reproduce the name of the song in its order.The order comes nearly two decades after the song was released and has been in circulation. The order came in response to a petition by an organisation named Hindu Shakti Dal objecting to the ‘controversial’ song, which Singh had refrained from publicly admitting to have sung so far. The petition, however, claimed that Singh “recently during a concert… sung verses from his infamous song ‘Vol.1’, further confirming that the same was sung by him.” The organisation submitted that the “contents of the song are objectionable, vulgar and derogatory towards females, further the lyrics are provocative of violence towards females.” The petitioner-organisation also relied on the Supreme Court’s characterisation of comments of podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia, as “filthy”, “disgusting” and reflective of a “dirty …
