Today, On 2nd July, An MP-MLA court has postponed the hearing in the defamation case against Rahul Gandhi to July 14. The case relates to his 2018 remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra.
An MP-MLA court in the city has postponed the hearing in a defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi until July 14.
The case stems from Gandhi’s purportedly offensive comments regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah, with the defamation complaint filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra in 2018.
Advocate Santosh Kumar Pandey, representing Mishra, noted that the court was set to examine a witness on Wednesday, but the hearing was rescheduled due to the witness’s absence.
In December 2023, the MP-MLA court had issued a warrant for Gandhi’s arrest. He surrendered in February 2024 and was granted bail, provided he submitted two sureties of Rs 25,000 each.
On July 26, 2024, Gandhi presented his statement in court, asserting his innocence and claiming that the case was a political conspiracy against him. Mishra has alleged that Gandhi made inappropriate remarks about Shah during the Karnataka Assembly election campaign.
The case arises from a complaint alleging derogatory comments directed at Shah, who currently serves as the Union Home Minister.
During his speech, Rahul Gandhi had referred to Amit Shah as a “murder accused”, a reference to the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case in which Amit Shah was once named but later acquitted by a CBI court in 2014 due to lack of evidence.
Sahu further noted that in 2018, during a Congress session when he was the party’s national president, Rahul Gandhi remarked that,
“No murderer can become the national president in Congress and that Congresspeople cannot accept any murderer as the national president. In the Bharatiya Janata Party, the killer can become the national president, and only people of the Bharatiya Janata Party can accept the murderer as national president.”
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Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi allegedly made a statement in his speech implying that someone accused of murder could still become the BJP President, indirectly referring to Amit Shah as a “murderer.”
Rahul Gandhi did not appear before the court despite multiple summons. Initially, a bailable warrant was issued against him, which was later converted into a non-bailable warrant in February 2024.
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