India, Nov. 11 -- Former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia have moved the Delhi High Court challenging the summons issued by the Delhi Assembly's privileges committee in connection with the "Phansi Ghar" (gallows chamber) controversy.

The row erupted earlier this year after current Speaker Vijender Gupta dismissed the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's claim that a room in the Assembly complex had once been used by the British to hang freedom fighters.

In 2022, AAP had a memorial built there, featuring murals of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, a symbolic hanging rope, and red-brick heritage-style walls. A plaque credited to Kejriwal and then Speaker Ram Niwas Goel bore the inscri...