Delhi Police registered fresh first information reports against senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra following physical skirmishes that occurred during opposition marches in central New Delhi. The police complaints, filed at the Parliament Street police station, invoke sections regarding unlawful assembly, deterring public servants from duty, and damaging public transport vehicles.
According to police statements, protest organizers defied magisterial prohibitory orders and led a procession toward Nirvachan Sadan, causing barricade collapses and scuffles with law enforcement personnel. Several police officers sustained minor contusions while attempting to divert protesters into designated holding buses before transit to temporary detention camps.
Congress legal representatives condemned the criminal filings as authoritarian intimidation, arguing that peaceful democratic assembly to question electoral integrity is an inviolable constitutional right. The opposition declared that it will challenge the charges before the Delhi High Court and persist with nationwide agitations against voter roll irregularities.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/top-news-of-the-day-october-8-2026/article71559617.ece