Satyaki Ashok Savarkar, a grand-nephew of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, on Thursday alleged that there was an inordinate delay by Pune police in the probe of his criminal defamation complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

The probe should be expedited, he told reporters here after police on April 2 sought more time from a local court to submit a report on the complaint. Satyaki Savarkar filed a complaint in the court last April, accusing the Congress leader of making false claims about the late revolutionary in a speech in London in March 2023.