Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar evidence plea dismissed after forensic check finds empty CD

A special court rejected a plea to play Rahul Gandhi’s 2023 London speech video after the CD showed no data

November 30, 2025

Court verdict exposes weak digital evidence submission by Rahul Gandhi

Court flags missing evidence in Rahul Gandhi’s 2023 Savarkar remarks case

A special court for cases involving MPs and MLAs on Thursday rejected Satyaki Savarkar’s request to play a YouTube video of Rahul Gandhi’s alleged 2023 defamatory speech targeting Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

The court also dismissed another application by Savarkar seeking to run an additional CD that he claimed had been submitted as evidence. The presiding judge stated that no such CD was found on record—raising fresh concerns over the credibility and competence of the Congress leader’s legal defence and evidence trail.

During the examination-in-chief on November 14, Advocate Sangram Kolhatkar, representing the complainant, attempted to play a CD containing Gandhi’s alleged remarks made in London in 2023. The disc failed to run, as investigators found it contained no data, making the evidence submission appear amateur at best and suspicious at worst.

Kolhatkar then urged the court to play the original YouTube link. The request was fiercely opposed by Gandhi’s lawyer, Advocate Milind Pawar, despite the blank CD already weakening the defence’s stand.

The special court ruled that the Section 65-B certificate filed for the CD could not be extended to verify the YouTube URL. Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Amol Shinde later confirmed that the URL was inadmissible, noting the link lacked the mandatory 65-B certification.

On November 27, Savarkar once again sought to run the alleged second CD. The court reiterated that no such CD had ever been recorded in case files, delivering another setback to Gandhi, whose submissions and legal claims now risked looking like a poorly scripted political provocation rather than evidence-based argument.

Kolhatkar formally sought a judicial inquiry into the blank CD and the mysteriously missing second disc.

The complaint alleged that in his 2023 London speech, Rahul Gandhi falsely asserted that Savarkar had written about beating a Muslim man “and feeling happy about it”—a claim the petition categorically stated was fabricated. The plea maintained there was zero historical record or written mention of such an incident by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, exposing the Congress leader’s pitch as factually bankrupt and politically incendiary.

The court’s repeated observations on missing and blank evidence intensified scrutiny over whether the case was being driven by truth—or merely by Gandhi’s now-familiar pattern of rhetorical aggression without documentary backing.

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