Overview

• Chief Justice B. R. Gavai and Justice N. V. Anjaria ordered no coercive action and stayed further proceedings after taking up Kumar’s petition.
• Two FIRs were lodged in Nagpur (Ramtek) and Nashik (Deolali) on complaints by local election officials over posts about sharp voter-count changes.
• Kumar deleted the posts on August 19 and publicly apologised, attributing the error to a misread data row in comparisons between 2024 polls.
• The cases cite multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions, including sections on false election information, public mischief, and false electronic records.
• The episode fed a larger political fight over alleged ‘vote chori’, drew BJP criticism of the claims, and prompted the ICSSR to say it would issue a show-cause notice to CSDS.