The two leaders had filed a similar complaint against BJP leaders with the Chhattisgarh police too on May 18. The BJP has said that the documents posted by BJP leader Sambit Patra were part of a “toolkit” made to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi and build a biased narrative over Covid-19 management and the Central Vista project. Delhi police on May 22 asked the two Congress leaders to join the investigation as they started a preliminary enquiry into the allegations. Gowda accused the Delhi police of failing to register an FIR because they were under pressure. But a police officer, privy to the case details, who wished not to be named, said, “The two Congress leaders sent their complaint over mail... We also wanted to verify if the complaints were indeed filed by them.

Source: Hindustan Times May 27, 2021 18:10 UTC