Overview

• The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate in Lucknow directed that a complaint be registered and scheduled Oct. 1 to record the complainant’s statement.
• Advocate Nripendra Pandey filed the case over a January 15 remark at the Indira Bhawan inauguration in Delhi that “we are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian state itself.”
• The petition interprets “Indian state” as the Republic and its constitutional institutions and calls the remark an attack on India’s sovereignty, unity and integrity.
• The complaint characterizes the statement as seditious and deliberate with intent to destabilize the country, citing past speeches to allege a broader design.
• Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, K.C. Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh are also named due to their presence at the event, with a request for their arrest.