Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi appeared before Sultanpur MP/MLA court in connection with a defamation case lodged against him for alleged objectionable remarks directed at Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday. The court on July 2 had asked Rahul Gandhi to appear on July 26.
Rahul Gandhi’s counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla told TOI that court recorded the statement of Rahul Gandhi and fixed next date of August 12 in the case for examination of evidence.Shukla told TOI that Rahul Gandhi arrived at sharp 11 am and said that he was innocent the case was registered against him with a malafide intention.
BJP functionary Vijay Mishra had filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi in Sultanpur for his remarks against Amit Shah during the Karnataka elections in 2018.Gandhi had allegedly said that “BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an accused in a murder case”. At that time, Shah was the national president of BJP. Four years before Rahul’s remarks, a special CBI court in Mumbai had discharged Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was the Gujarat home minister.
Rahul Gandhi’s counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla told TOI that court recorded the statement of Rahul Gandhi and fixed next date of August 12 in the case for examination of evidence.Shukla told TOI that Rahul Gandhi arrived at sharp 11 am and said that he was innocent the case was registered against him with a malafide intention.
BJP functionary Vijay Mishra had filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi in Sultanpur for his remarks against Amit Shah during the Karnataka elections in 2018.Gandhi had allegedly said that “BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an accused in a murder case”. At that time, Shah was the national president of BJP. Four years before Rahul’s remarks, a special CBI court in Mumbai had discharged Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was the Gujarat home minister.