Rahul Gandhi defamation case: Hearing postponed to June 18
The Hindu
Rahul Gandhi's defamation case hearing postponed to June 18 after condolence meeting for deceased lawyer on June 6.
An MP-MLA court here on June 6 postponed the hearing in the 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Mr. Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said due to the death of a lawyer, a condolence meeting was held in the court on June 6 and the hearing was postponed to June 18.
The Congress leader appeared in court in the defamation case in February and he was granted bail. The complaint against Mr. Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra.
Last December, the court issued a warrant against Mr. Gandhi. Subsequently, the Congress leader halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20, appeared in the court, and was granted bail.
The complaint was filed on August 4, 2018, against Mr. Gandhi for his alleged objectionable comments against Mr. Shah made at a press conference in Bengaluru in May of that year during the Karnataka elections.
The complainant referred to Mr. Gandhi's comments that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an "accused" in a murder case. Mr. Shah was the BJP president when Mr. Gandhi made the comment.
About four years before Mr. Gandhi's remark, a special CBI court in Mumbai discharged Mr. Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was a Minister of State for home in Gujarat.
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