After 10 days, Gokhale called up the SC registry to check up with the status. He was then called into the SC registry for a discussion about more of the “defects” that had popped up in the PIL. He was handed a list of defects again when he went in. He was put off because ideally, these defects should have been given to him the first time itself, and most of these defects were just repetitions from the first draft of the PIL.

More surprisingly, Gokhale was questioned as to why respondent no. 3 (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) was made party. This completely stunned him because of the simple fact that the inquiry was about PM Narendra Modi’s undeclared assets, so, it is obvious that he will be made party.

This made it seem like somebody was making him go in circles to stall or avoid his PIL entirely. Saket Gokhale then shared his concerns on social media platforms: