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The Congress slammed the BJP-led authorities connected Saturday (January 24, 2026)over the transportation of Sambhal Chief Judicial Magistrate Vibhanshu Sudheer, who had directed that an FIR beryllium lodged against constabulary unit successful transportation with the Sambhal violence, and alleged that this is not an administrative determination but a "direct battle connected judicial independence".
The absorption enactment urged the Supreme Court and the Allahabad High Court to instrumentality suo-motu cognisance of the "arbitrary and deeply-troubling transfer" of Sudheer.
Congress's media and publicity section caput Pawan Khera said timely judicial involution is indispensable to uphold the regularisation of law, support organization autonomy and forestall further erosion of antiauthoritarian governance successful the country.
Addressing a property conference, Mr. Khera said adjacent much alarming was the archetypal effort to appoint, arsenic Sudheer's replacement, the precise judicial serviceman who had ordered the arguable survey of the Jama Masjid that had preceded the Sambhal violence.
"Although this assignment was reversed wrong 48 hours pursuing nationalist outrage and was softly sent backmost to his archetypal post, the occurrence itself lays bare the BJP government's systematic effort to crook judicial medication to its governmental will, weaponise transfers arsenic instruments of power and erode the independency of the judiciary successful pursuit of its authoritarian agenda," Mr. Khera said.
The Congress leader's remarks came aft lawyers earlier this week protested against Mr. Sudheer's transfer, alleging that the determination undermined judicial independence.
Mr. Sudheer had, connected January 9, directed for the registration of an FIR against constabulary personnel, including the past ellipse serviceman Anuj Chowdhury, successful transportation with the Sambhal unit case.
Mr. Khera alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led authorities has erstwhile again laid bare its astir "lethal, anti-people, anti-constitutional, authoritarian and brutally-autocratic character" by openly subverting the antiauthoritarian institutions of the country.
"The abrupt transportation of the main judicial magistrate, Sudheer, is not an administrative act, it is simply a calculated enactment of organization vandalism and a nonstop battle connected judicial independence," helium said.
"The BJP has perfected a unsafe and cynical governmental look -- manufacture communal tension, unleash State violence, support the perpetrators and past crush immoderate instauration that dares to request accountability. Sambhal is not an exception, it is the latest unfortunate of this deliberate and deeply-sinister strategy," helium alleged.
The communal unit successful Sambhal was not spontaneous but a nonstop result of the BJP government's authorities of "hatred, polarisation and impunity", Mr. Khera further claimed.
The CJM's transportation is simply a textbook illustration of however the ruling enactment has "hijacked the judicial system" to service its governmental interests, helium alleged.
When the judiciary yet stepped successful to uphold the regularisation of law, the BJP reacted with vengeance, the Congress person claimed.
During the Sambhal violence, the constabulary medication had resorted to indiscriminate and reckless firing, resulting successful the deaths of protesters from the Muslim community, helium said.
"This is simply a shocking, condemnable and custodial killing-like incident, demanding an independent, transparent and impartial investigation. Yet, the BJP authorities showed zero interest for justice, choosing alternatively the way of cover-up, intimidation and suppression," Mr. Khera said.
"On January 9, arsenic the CJM, Sambhal, Vibhanshu Sudheer directed for the registration of an FIR against arguable constabulary serviceman Anuj Chaudhary, who was past serving arsenic the ellipse officer, Sambhal, on with different constabulary personnel, successful transportation with the firing incident," helium said.
Instead of allowing the judicial process to proceed, the BJP authorities ensured that the justice was swiftly removed, Mr. Khera added.
"Sudheer was transferred to Sambhal from Agra lone connected September 18, 2025. His transportation wrong hardly 4 months is not lone unprecedented but screams of governmental interference, vindictiveness and organization sabotage," helium said.
"This transportation is intelligibly punitive, intended to nonstop a chilling connection to the judiciary -- enactment against the BJP's constabulary machinery and you volition wage the price," helium said.
This is not an isolated incidental but portion of a deliberate, well-orchestrated program to dismantle antiauthoritarian checks and balances and guarantee that nary instauration remains susceptible of questioning power, the Congress person added.
"We, therefore, impulse the Honourable Supreme Court of India and the Honourable Allahabad High Court to instrumentality suo-motu cognisance of the arbitrary and deeply-troubling transportation of Sambhal's main judicial magistrate, Vibhanshu Sudheer.
"This contented goes acold beyond the transportation of an idiosyncratic judicial officer, it strikes astatine the halfway of judicial independency and the law equilibrium betwixt the judiciary and the executive," Khera said.
On November 24, 2024, unit erupted successful the Kot Garvi locality successful Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal during a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era Jama Masjid. The incidental led to the deaths of 4 radical owed to gunfire, portion respective sustained injuries.
