Releasing a copy of his contempt petition at a press conference here on Thursday morning, Kamdar said the RSS chief filed an affidavit on October 3, 1997, in the HC claiming that he was RSS's general secretary and was thus entitled to represent it in the court proceedings.

He said he had initiated proceedings before the court of Deputy Charity Commissioner at Nagpur as early as 1972 for registration of the RSS as a public trust under the Bombay Trust Act.