Justice Subhash Vidyarthi of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Monday recused himself from hearing the case of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s alleged dual citizenship in view 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 chief justice for nominating a new bench for hearing.
HC judge recuses himself from Rahul Gandhi citizenship case In Monday’s order, the judge said the petitioner cast aspersions on the court with the social media posts.
Government advocate VK Singh, who appeared on behalf of the UP government during Monday’s hearing, said that in view of the comments made by the petitioner on social media, Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, in open court, recused himself from hearing Rahul Gandhi’s alleged dual citizenship case and directed that the file be sentto the chief justice for nominating a new bench.
Last Friday, Justice Vidyarthi had deferred the open court order to register an FIR against Rahul Gandhi in the alleged dual citizenship case.
In its Monday’s order, the court said, “The petitioner has posted the following message on social media: Massive back room exercise by Congress party and late night calls to all from deep state elements.”
The high court order also said, “The aforesaid messages posted by the petitioner on social media indicate that he is casting aspersions against this court because the court had not signed and uploaded the order that was dictated in open court on 17.04.2026, for the reason recorded in the order dated 17.04.2026 signed and uploaded on the website of this court. The messages indicate that the petitioner has lost faith in this court.”
“Strangely, in yet another message posted on the social media the petitioner has sought public opinion whether he should request this Court to issue notice to the opposite party and order his personal appearance before the Court and he has stated he fully believes in this Court and Hon’ble Supreme Court of India,” the high court further said in its Monday’s order.
“In these
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