The Supreme Court on Monday (February 16, 2026) found “no good reason” to entertain a series of petitions seeking a criminal investigation against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for giving communal speeches and for a social media post, since deleted, depicting him firing a gun towards an animated image of two Muslim men.
Instead, a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant asked the petitioners, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, to approach the Guahati High Court despite the petitioners pointing out that Mr. Sarma is the “boss of Assam”.
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The Supreme Court declined to entertain the petition, though it agreed with the petitioners that no political leader or constitutional officeholder should conduct themselves in a manner that would harm the secular ethos and morality enshrined in the Constitution, especially when elections were near.
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