SC slams Rahul over remarks on Savarkar

way2barak, April 26: The Supreme Court on Friday criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for comments against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar while granting a stay on summons issued by a Lucknow court.

“Let him not make any statements on freedom fighters without knowing any history or geography about it,” remarked a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan, hearing Gandhi’s petition challenging an April 4 Allahabad HC order.

The High Court had refused to quash summons issued by a Lucknow court in a complaint by advocate Nripendra Pandey, who alleged Gandhi’s statements during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in November 2022 amounted to promoting enmity and public mischief.

Gandhi had at the time called Savarkar a “servant” of the British Raj.

The bench questioned Gandhi’s knowledge of history, asking, “Does your client know that his grandmother, when she was the Prime Minister, wrote a letter praising this gentleman? Does he know that Mahatma Gandhi also used ‘your faithful servant’ while addressing the Viceroy?”