A Sultanpur MP-MLA court adjourned Rahul Gandhi’s defamation case hearing to September 9 after his lawyer sought more time. The case stems from Gandhi’s 2018 remarks calling Amit Shah “an accused in a murder case.”
Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh): On August 22, An MP-MLA court in Sultanpur has postponed the hearing of a defamation case filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The case is linked to his alleged objectionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The next date of hearing has been fixed for September 9 after Gandhi’s lawyer requested more time.
Advocate Santosh Kumar Pandey, who is representing the petitioner and BJP leader Vijay Mishra, said that a witness was present in court to give his statement but the hearing could not take place.
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“The hearing couldn’t take place as Rahul Gandhi’s advocate, Kashi Prasad Shukla, who was not present in the court, sought more time,”
Pandey informed. The court then fixed September 9 as the new date for further proceedings.
The case goes back to 2018, when BJP leader Vijay Mishra filed a defamation complaint against Gandhi. The complaint was over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks during the Karnataka Assembly election campaign, where he allegedly targeted Amit Shah, who at the time was the BJP national president. Gandhi had said that Shah,
“who claimed to believe in honest and clean politics”, was “an accused in a murder case.”
However, records show that nearly four years before Gandhi made this statement, a special CBI court in Mumbai had already acquitted Amit Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case. At that time, Shah was serving as the Minister of State for Home in Gujarat.
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The Sultanpur MP-MLA court had earlier issued a warrant against Rahul Gandhi in December 2023. In February 2024, Gandhi surrendered before the court and was granted bail after furnishing two sureties of Rs 25,000 each.
On July 26, 2024, Gandhi appeared in the court and gave his statement. He denied all charges and maintained that he was being framed. Rahul Gandhi told the court that the case was part of a political attack on him, saying it was a “political conspiracy.”
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After that, the court directed the complainant to bring forward evidence. On April 28, petitioner’s lawyer Pandey presented a man named Anil as a witness. He was cross-examined in court by Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer, Kashi Prasad Shukla.
The legal proceedings are still underway, and the case will now come up again on September 9, when further evidence and arguments are expected to be heard.
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