The Supreme Court has dismissed a review petition filed by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat seeking reconsideration of its April 29 judgment, which had declined to interfere with the refusal to direct registration of an FIR against BJP MP Anurag Thakur over his alleged “goli maaro” speech during the anti-CAA protests in 2020.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta rejected Karat’s plea, saying that it found no ground to revisit the earlier verdict. “We have gone through the review petition as well as the grounds in support thereof. We do not find any error, much less apparent, in the order impugned, warranting its reconsideration,” the apex court said in its order passed on July 29. After the police declined to act on her complaint, she approached the trial court under Section 156(3) CrPC, which refused to direct registration of an FIR on the ground that prior sanction was required. The Delhi High Court had affirmed that view, prompting Karat to move the Supreme Court. While the apex court corrected the legal position on the requirement of prior sanction in its April verdict, it ultimately declined to order registration of an FIR, holding that the speeches in question did not disclose the commission of any cognisable offence.