Varanasi – Police in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, have issued a notice to folk singer Neha Singh Rathore in connection with a case registered in 2025 regarding her alleged derogatory remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Lanka police station in-charge Rajkumar Sharma confirmed that the notice was issued on Wednesday as part of the process for filing the chargesheet in the case. “A case was registered against Rathore in 2025 for allegedly making objectionable comments about the prime minister,” he said.
Reacting on the social media platform X, Rathore stated that police from Varanasi’s Lanka station visited her residence following her earlier summon by Hazratganj police in Lucknow. She criticized the authorities, saying, “The amount of effort and speed being used to harass me, I wish the same effort and speed had been shown in delivering justice to the daughter from Patna. This is how daughters are being ‘saved’—shame.”
Authorities clarified that the notice was issued strictly in accordance with legal procedures. Separately, Rathore is under investigation by Lucknow police over a social media post related to the 2025 Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 tourists were killed in Jammu and Kashmir.
The FIR in that case was filed on April 27, 2025, after which Rathore challenged it in court. The Supreme Court had granted her interim protection against arrest on January 7, 2026.
