Overview
- The restraint on the trial court taking cognisance of the Haryana SIT chargesheet will remain in force until the next hearing in six weeks.
- Additional Solicitor General S. V. Raju said a chargesheet was filed in August 2025 but the Haryana government has not granted the required sanction to prosecute.
- Chief Justice Surya Kant floated a "one-time magnanimity" approach in which the state could decline sanction to close the case, coupled with an expectation that Ali Khan Mahmudabad act responsibly.
- The Supreme Court has earlier confined the investigation to two FIRs, criticized overreach, and directed a three-member SIT to assess the wording of the posts after granting interim bail in May 2025.
- The FIRs, filed by Rai police on complaints including from Haryana State Commission for Women chair Renu Bhatia, cite BNS provisions on sovereignty, public mischief, communal enmity, and insult to a woman's modesty.