The Supreme Court docket on Friday quashed a personal prison grievance pending in Uttar Pradesh in opposition to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of spreading communal disharmony by defaming right-wing ideologue VD Savarkar.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu mentioned the required sanction was not obtained within the matter.
“Further Solicitor Common and advocate for complainant, within the affidavit filed by UP, submits there isn’t any disclosure of sanction. In such view of the matter, the grievance and orders handed by Justice of the Peace stands quashed,” the bench mentioned.
Gandhi, the chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha, had described Savarkar as a collaborator with the British and additional acknowledged that Savarkar acquired pension from the British. After a prison grievance was filed in opposition to him, a Justice of the Peace in Uttar Pradesh had issued a summons to Gandhi.
The Congress chief approached the Supreme Court docket, looking for the quashing of the summons.
He was dealing with prices underneath Sections 153A (selling enmity) and 505 (public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a grievance filed by advocate Nripendra Pandey.
The petitioner raised a grievance over remarks made by Rahul Gandhi on November 17, 2022 throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra when he referred to Savarkar as a collaborator with the Britishers.
