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Updated: Apr 26, 2019 23:51 IST

A Delhi court on Friday sought a report on action taken by Delhi Police on a criminal complaint seeking a first information report (FIR) to be lodged against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for a 2016 remark he made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal listed the matter for May 15.

The complainant, Supreme Court advocate Joginder Tuli, in his application said Gandhi, in a speech in October 2016, had accused the Prime Minister of “hiding behind the blood of soldiers....” and “....cashing on their sacrifice.” Tuli sought an FIR against Gandhi “for spreading obscenity, insulting a public figure and also sedition”.

Tuli said he had lodged a complaint with the deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi) and station house officer on October 10, 2016 but the police had not taken action despite knowing that it was “a cognisable offence.”

Pranav Jha, a Congress spokesperson, said the Congress party was not scared of frivolous litigation. “Sundry complaints at the behest of PM and his party are not going to take away from the fact that as then, Shri Modi, almost habitually is hiding behind the supreme sacrifice of personnel from our forces even now,” said Jha.