The Supreme Court on Monday pulled Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on its alleged remarks on the Indian Army after a confrontation between Indian and Chinese forces in the Yangsi region of Arunachal Pradesh in 2022.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Dutta and Augustine George Maasih expressed rejection of Gandhi’s comments, saying how he knows that Chinese has occupied 2000 square kilometers of land and said that a true Indian would not say so.
Justice Dutta said, “How will you know that 2000 square kilometers of Indian region was occupied by China? What is reliable material? If you are a true Indian, you will not say this. When there is a struggle on the borders … can you say all this?”
The bench also asked senior advocate Abhishek Manu Sinhali, present for Gandhi, why Gandhi did not say all this in Parliament and why on social media.
“Whatever you have to say, why don’t you call it in Parliament? Why do you have to say this in social media posts?” Asked Justice Dutta.
Meanwhile, the apex court also took further action before the trial court in the case and issued a notice to the complainant, former Border Rhodes Organization (BRO) Director Uday Shankar Srivastava.
On May 29, the Allahabad High Court rejected Gandhi’s plea, which challenges the defamation case and also a summons order passed by an MP MLA court in Lucknow in February 2025.
Srivastava said in his defamation complaint that the alleged derogatory remarks by Gandhi were made during their India Jin -Yatra on December 16, 2022, stating that his objectionable comments related to the clash between Indian and Chinese forces had defamed the Indian Army.
Gandhi spoke on December 16, 2022, during his ‘India Jump Yatra’ in the presence of media individuals and during a large gathering of the public, on 9 December 2022, about a face-to-face between the Indian Army and the Chinese Army on the India border in Arunachal Pradesh.
Gandhi had said, “People will ask about India’s journey, here and there, Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot and Whatston. Don’t know.”
The complainant had said that the statement made by Gandhi was made as an attempt to demolish the Indian Army.
Gandhi’s statement is false and unfounded and was given a bad intention to demolish the Indian Army and damage the Indian Army’s confidence in the Indian Army, while the truth is that the Indian Army told its colleague in a scuffle in the scuffle to be held on December 9, 2022 in the Youngsi region Arunachal Pradesh. (AI)
