Overview

• Advocate Milind D. Pawar acknowledged filing a court application claiming Rahul Gandhi’s life was under threat without consulting his client and said he will formally withdraw the statement.
• Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said Gandhi strongly disagreed with the unauthorized filing and directed his lawyer to retract it from the Pune court record.
• The disputed application had alleged the complainant in the Savarkar defamation case was a direct descendant of Nathuram Godse with a documented history of violence.
• Satyaki Savarkar of the Savarkar family dismissed the safety claim as irrelevant and accused Gandhi of using it to delay the defamation proceedings.
• Separately, Gandhi posted a video accusing the Election Commission of erasing names from voter lists and quipped about having tea with “dead people.”