Bhatia moved an application in this regard seeking the registration of an FIR against Gandhi.Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appeared for Gandhi and Kharge and told the court that he will be filing a response. Singhvi said, āI only request that irresponsible statements should not be made before the court takes up the matter.
We will be filing our response.āThe petition had also named Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav along with the Commissioner of Police, Centre, the Supreme Court registry, and the Indian National Congress as respondents.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said that he will file a response to the petition by the next date. He urged the court to hear the matter along with a petition filed by the Network of Women in Media highlighting instances of alleged sexual harassment suffered by women journalists covering the protests in the Capital.Bhatia said that the petition seeks a neutral framework regulating processions and demonstrations in and around the judicial complexes of the constitutional courts, an absolute prohibition of political protests inside judicial complexes, and guidelines on the decorum to be maintained by political parties and their leaders within judicial campuses.