Savarkar Remark| Lucknow Court Registers Complaint Filed Against Rahul Gandhi

A Lucknow Court today registered a complaint filed against Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged offensive remarks made against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in Maharashtra during his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra.

The order was passed by Addl. Civil Judge (Sr.Div.)/ACJM Ambrish Kumar Srivastava on an application moved by Advocate Nripendra Pandey under section 156 (3). The Court has NOW posted the matter for January 9 to record the statement of the complainant.

A #LucknowCourt has REGISTERED a complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) over his alleged offensive remarks made against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in Maharashtra during his #BharatJodoYatra.#savarkar pic.twitter.com/hZsiWNWmro

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Essentially, in his application, Complainant Pandey had sought registration of an FIR, however, the Court thought it fit to register the complaint and examine the complainant and his witnesses.

In his plea, Pandey has alleged that on November 17, Rahul Gandhi, with the intention of spreading hatred in the society called the nationalist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a servant of the British, adding that he took a pension from the British. 

"Kantiveer Damodar, the great leader of the nationalist ideology, was a fearless freedom fighter in the history of independence, who endured the inhuman atrocities of the British to free Mother India from their slavery and Gandhi insulted Savarkar ji using indecent words and made hateful utterances to spread inferiority complex towards Savarkar ji...," the plea further states.

Having perused the complaint, the Court went ahead to register the complaint as it found it appropriate to do so.

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