New Delhi. Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has suffered a setback from the Allahabad High Court. The High Court has rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea in the derogatory remarks case on Savarkar. It is alleged that in 2022, Rahul Gandhi had made an alleged derogatory remarks against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during the Bharat Jito Yatra rally, on which a case was filed against him in the lower court. The lower court issued summons, ordering Rahul Gandhi to be summoned. Rahul had filed a petition in the High Court challenging the same order of the lower court, but the High Court refused to quench the order of the lower court.
According to the bar end bench, the session court issued summons to Rahul Gandhi last December, stating that his statements about Savarkar have spread hatred and malicious. High Court judge Subhash Vidyarthi refused to consider Rahul Gandhi’s petition. However, he said that Rahul may file a petition before the Sessions Judge under Section 397 (Review of the lower court records). Advocate Nripendra Pandey lodged a complaint against Rahul Gandhi.
Pandey had said in his complaint that Rahul Gandhi had described Savarkar as a slave to the British and also said that Savarkar used to get pension from the British. In June 2023, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ambareesh Kumar Srivastava dismissed the complaint of advocate Nripendra Pandey, after which the petitioner challenged the order before the Sessions Court. The Sessions Court accepted Pandey’s plea against Rahul and sent the case back to the magistrate court. After this, Rahul Gandhi was issued summons and asked to appear.
