The Supreme Court has strongly reprimanded the lawyer who demanded registration of a murder case against the Prime Minister, the Union Home Minister and the then Law Minister for passing the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. Pointing out that the petitioner did not have a basic understanding of law, the court asked who made him a lawyer? However, on the request of the petitioner, the Supreme Court has currently postponed the High Court’s order to impose damages on him.
A lawyer named Puran Chander Sen had filed a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the then Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at Govindgarh police station in Alwar. Holding these leaders responsible for the violence and death of people in many parts of the country in protest against CAA, Sen had demanded a murder case to be registered against them. When no action was taken by the police station, he went to the High Court.
The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court, in its order given on 23 September 2025, said that making laws is the job of the Parliament. If there is violence somewhere in protest against any law, then a case cannot be filed against the PM or ministers for that. Terming the petition as factless and baseless, the High Court had imposed a compensation of Rs 50,000 on the lawyer.
The lawyer who approached the Supreme Court against this order got the same advice here too. Chief Justice Surya Kant even said that the petitioner has no knowledge of law. Perhaps someone might have registered him as a lawyer by mistake. The court reprimanded the petitioner and said that if he cross-examines further, the compensation of Rs 50,000 will be increased to Rs 5 lakh.
However, on repeated requests of the petitioner, the judges’ stance softened. He said that if the petitioner is aggrieved by the compensation order, he can consider it. First the petitioner should give an undertaking that he will not file such baseless petition in future.
After the petitioner assured that it will not file a baseless petition in future, the Supreme Court postponed the damages imposed by the High Court. The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi recorded in the order that if the petitioner does not follow his word in future, the order of the High Court will be considered implemented.
Keep in mind that in December 2019, Parliament had passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The purpose of this law was to give Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to India due to persecution on religious grounds. There were violent protests in some parts of the country calling this law against Muslims.
