Justice Subhash Vidyarthi of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court docket on Monday recused himself from listening to the case of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s alleged dual citizenship in gaze of the comments made by the petitioner S. Vignesh Shishir, a Karnataka BJP worker, on social media and directed to send the file to the executive justice for nominating a new bench for listening to.
In Monday’s expose, the make a resolution mentioned the petitioner solid aspersions on the court docket with the social media posts.
Government imply VK Singh, who regarded on behalf of the UP authorities all the map in which by Monday’s listening to, mentioned that in gaze of the comments made by the petitioner on social media, Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, in delivery court docket, recused himself from listening to Rahul Gandhi’s alleged dual citizenship case and directed that the file be sentto the executive justice for nominating a new bench.
Final Friday, Justice Vidyarthi had deferred the delivery court docket expose to register an FIR in opposition to Rahul Gandhi in the alleged dual citizenship case.
In its Monday’s expose, the court docket mentioned, “The petitioner has posted the following message on social media: Huge serve room exercise by Congress event and unhurried evening calls to all from deep issue substances.”
The high court docket expose also mentioned, “The aforesaid messages posted by the petitioner on social media point to that he is casting aspersions in opposition to this court docket on account of the court docket had now not signed and uploaded the expose that used to be dictated in delivery court docket on 17.04.2026, for the cause recorded in the expose dated 17.04.2026 signed and uploaded on the net sites of this court docket. The messages point to that the petitioner has lost faith in this court docket.”
“Strangely, in yet another message posted on the social media the petitioner has sought public conception whether or now not he must ask this Court docket to topic salvage to the reverse event and expose his deepest look sooner than the Court docket and he has mentioned he fully believes in this Court docket and Hon’ble Supreme Court docket of India,” the high court docket extra mentioned in its Monday’s expose.
“In these conditions, when the petitioner has publicly solid aspersions on the Court docket on social media, this court docket doesn’t judge it appropriate to hear this matter any extra,” mentioned the court docket.
“The Courts device now not get influenced by the appreciation of litigants. On the opposite hand, the messages quoted above posted after passing of the expose dated 17.04.2026 amount to casting aspersions on this Court docket and preserving these in consideration, I secure it appropriate to recuse from listening to this case,” mentioned the expose.
“Accordingly, I recuse myself from listening to this matter,” Justice Vidyarthi mentioned in the expose.
The court docket also pointed out that advocates, including deputy solicitor overall of India, representing diverse parties did now not serve the court docket.
In Friday’s expose, out there on the high court docket’s net sites on Saturday, the court docket mentioned that all the map in which by Friday’s listening to, the petitioner, at the side of the attorneys for the central and issue governments, had been requested whether or now not a salvage to opponent #1 (Rahul Gandhi) used to be mandatory in this case.
The expose mentioned that the attorneys told the court docket that there used to be no deserve to topic a salvage, after which a detailed expose for registration of FIR used to be handed in delivery court docket.
On the opposite hand, sooner than the expose used to be typed and signed, Justice Vidyarthi had seen that the fats bench of the Allahabad high court docket, in a resolution, handed in 2014, had held that handiest a revision petition is maintainable in case of rejection of the petitions looking out for registration of FIR and it is miles main to send a salvage to the proposed accused on such petition.
The court docket had mentioned that, given this real situation, it used to be now not appropriate to make a resolution the matter with out issuing salvage to opponent #1 (Rahul Gandhi). The court docket had fastened April 20 for the following listening to.
The petitioner, S Vignesh Shishir, has levelled diverse serious allegations in opposition to Rahul Gandhi below the Indian Penal Code, the Legit Secrets and suggestions Act, the Foreigners Act, and the Passport Act, and demanded a thorough investigation. A decrease court docket had previously rejected the petitioner’s application. He approached the high court docket thereafter.
