India, April 25 -- The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a petition filed by senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking quashing of summons issued to him by a Lucknow court on his remarks against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Gandhi has challenged the April 4 decision of the high court refusing to set aside the summons issued to him by the trial court in December last year on his comments made during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in November 2022 where he is accused of intentionally insulting Savarkar at the rally held in Maharashtra's Akola district.

The matter is listed before a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan.

The high court dismissed the Congress leader's plea on the grounds that he has the remedy of filing a revision aga...