Without taking names, popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathee wrote on social media that "attempts had been made to defame him" amid allegations by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal against him that she had receiving rape and death threats after the former posted a video over the alleged assault on her by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar.