Overview

• Additional District Judge (ADJ-II) Aarti Faujdar scheduled the next hearing in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, for September 26.
• Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer Sagir Saifi said the court is awaiting files from a lower court before it can proceed.
• Petitioner Simran Gupta of the Hindu Shakti Dal filed the case after she said district authorities took no action on her complaint.
• The case arises from Gandhi’s January 15 remarks at the Congress headquarters inauguration that “we are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian state itself.”
• Gandhi, identified as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, also faces separate defamation proceedings related to comments about V D Savarkar.