Overview
- Simran Gupta of the Hindu Shakti Dal has moved the Allahabad High Court under Article 227 to challenge a Sambhal court’s refusal to direct registration of an FIR over Rahul Gandhi’s alleged 2025 remark.
- Assistant Government Advocate Rupak Chaubey told the court the petition failed to disclose the basis for challenging the lower-court orders.
- Justice Samit Gopal allowed two weeks for a supplementary affidavit and listed the case for hearing on March 11, with no interim order in place.
- The Sambhal court had rejected the FIR request and a revision plea was also dismissed, whereas a Lucknow court last year directed registration of a complaint on the same allegation.
- The plea cites the alleged statement, “We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS, and the Indian State itself,” and argues it amounts to seditious, anti-national speech.