Four first information reports have been lodged by Delhi Police following a demonstration organised by the INDIA bloc outside the office of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with authorities citing breaches of prohibitory orders that were in place across central Delhi at the time. Two complaints were lodged at Tilak Marg police station, while Mandir Marg and Barakhamba Road each account for one additional filing.
Restrictions on movement and assembly were imposed under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, a provision that grants officials the authority to act when public order is assessed to be at risk. The formal information reports were lodged the following morning, after a cross-section of opposition figures — including party functionaries, ordinary members, and financial supporters — assembled at a central Delhi venue to register objections with the Election Commission and call for an independent examination of the poll body's conduct.
A procession organised by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi set off from the Constitution Club with the Supreme Court as its destination, calling for an investigation into decisions attributed to Kumar that protesters described as having been taken without proper authorisation. A call was also put forward for the active Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls to be suspended until the inquiry reaches its conclusion.
The crowd assembled at the Barakhamba Road–Connaught Place junction well before the march moved off — roughly two and a half hours past its scheduled 1.30 pm start, with flags raised and slogans audible throughout. As attendance at the gathering grew, officers set up barriers, redirected vehicle flow, and brought in additional personnel.
Representatives from across the opposition spectrum — including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD, CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby, and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — convened at the Constitution Club to review and finalise the petition ahead of the planned march.
Fourteen separate objections arose when the petition underwent scrutiny — among them a ₹220 shortfall in court fees, a photocopy of Kharge's identity card described as too faint to read, and vakalatnamas absent for nine of the eleven petitioners listed. Attorneys for the defence submitted a scheduling request to have the matter called on Thursday.
At the conclusion of the march, Gandhi acknowledged those who took part on the ground as well as supporters who lent their backing from a distance. In a post on X, he described the demonstration as an effort to show that ordinary citizens across the country would not be intimidated by those in power.
