Lawyer files complaint seeking FIR against Rahul Gandhi for ‘unauthorised’ sit-in outside Delhi police station

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Advocate Sanket Gupta on Friday filed a complaint, seeking the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi and Congress workers and supporters for staging a sit-in outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police at Delhi’s Parliament Street Police Station, without permission.

The complaint was filed seeking registration of an FIR under Section 189 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

Rahul Gandhi was staging the sit-in to protest the alleged refusal of the police to register an FIR on a complaint by a student who, the Congress claimed, suffered pellet-gun injuries during last month’s protests demanding education reforms at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

Later in the evening, Delhi Police lodged an FIR against unknown persons on the complaint of the purported pellet-gun victim.

Speaking to IANS, Sanket Gupta said: “Today, I had gone to the Delhi Police’s New Delhi District office, regarding one of my old complaints. I had some important work there, but I could not get it done. My client had also accompanied me, but he too could not meet the police officer. The reason was that a sit-in demonstration was underway there, with Rahul Gandhi ji and Congress workers creating a lot of noise, and the entire atmosphere had become very disturbed.”

“I have filed a complaint with the Delhi Police that if a protest is being held there, the sit-in demonstration should be conducted according to the rule of law. No one has the right to take the law and the Constitution for granted and stage a protest,” he added.

Citing a Supreme Court order, the advocate said: “Even the apex court says that protest can be staged but one has to follow the rules and regulations.”

“No one can block the entry and exit of a police station with their agitation. Rahul Gandhi had staged an unlawful assembly, I have filed a complaint, seeking action against that,” he added.

Gupta reiterated that an FIR should be registered against anyone disobeying public order.

“According to an existing (legal) section of that place, any gathering of more than five people cannot be held there since it is a sensitive area of New Delhi… Blocking the gate of the DCP office, where any urgent complaint may come, for their own political interests is completely wrong. That is why I have filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi ji,” he said.

–IANS

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