The Tis Hazari court on Saturday framed charges against accused Rajesh Bhai Khimji Bhai and Syed Tahseen Raza for the offenses of criminal conspiracy as well as attempt to murder, obstructing a public servant and assault on a public servant in the attack on Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
The case pertains to the alleged attack on Chief Minister Rekha Gupta during a public hearing held at her camp office in Civil Lines in August 2025. Delhi’s Tis Hazari court said on Saturday, “Accused Rajesh Khimji attacked Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who has neither passed any order in the case of stray dogs nor had any role in the said order passed by the Supreme Court. The accused found the Chief Minister an easy target, as she was aware of the tight security of the Supreme Court judges. Was.”
While directing framing of charges against accused Aktriya Rajesh Bhai Khimji Bhai, the Court observed, “Accused Rajesh was well aware that the security arrangements of the Judges of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India are very high level, hence he found himself an easy victim because the victim, despite being a woman, being the Chief Minister, did not enjoy the same high level of security as the Judges of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.”
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ekta Gauba Mann, while directing framing of charges, referred to Shakespeare’s work. In the present context, the Court observed that though the accused has claimed in defense that he loves animals, especially dogs, and is aggrieved by the order of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in a suo motu writ petition (civil) filed in the case “Stray dogs menace in the city, children are paying the price”, but the accused has Was well aware of the tight security of the judges.
ASJ Mann remarked “The defense claimed by the accused Rajesh is that he loves dogs and is hurt by the order of the Supreme Court of India. But he has attacked the victim who has neither passed any such order nor has any role in the said order passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court,”. The court also said that the accused Rajesh is not a resident of Delhi and he has no right to approach the Chief Minister of Delhi for his complaint against the judicial order of the Supreme Court of India. Is. This makes it clear that the defense given by accused Rajesh is not satisfactory from a rational point of view.
The court took seriously the fact that the victim was a woman who was allegedly attacked by accused Rajesh and also referred to the law which empowers every woman. The court said, “The law of the land is that justice empowers every woman, whether she is a housewife or a chief minister, i.e. a cook or a chief minister, and the law protects them and gives severe punishment to the perpetrators of crimes.”
The Court observed that in this case, accused Rajesh broke the security cordon of the victim and brutally beat the victim on the ground, resulting in injuries on the temporal part of the victim’s head, bleeding from her nose and injury on her lip. The Court observed that accused Rajesh was strangulating the victim with both his hands and saying that he would not leave her alive.
