Overview

• Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi refused to entertain Rathore’s plea to quash the case and told her to face trial, while making no comment on the merits.
• The court recorded that Rathore may challenge the scope of the allegations when charges are framed before the trial court.
• The FIR, filed in late April at Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station on a complaint by Abhay Pratap Singh, alleges her posts targeted a religious community and threatened national unity.
• Police booked her under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions, including mutiny and waging war–related sections, as well as the Information Technology Act.
• Her counsel Kapil Sibal argued the invoked counts were grossly disproportionate; the Allahabad High Court had already declined to quash the FIR on September 19 after finding a prima facie case.