The complainant in the case alleged that he had watched Rahul Gandhi’s press conference and speech in 2022 in which he made remarks on Savarkar, alleging that they were defamatory.
A magistrate court in Maharashtra’s Nashik has issued a summons to LOP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case over his alleged comments on V D Savarkar.
“Considering the submissions made before me and considering the record, it appears that the statements made by the accused against patriotic person prima-facie seem defamatory. There are sufficient grounds to proceed in the case,” the order passed by an additional chief judicial magistrate in Nashik on September 27 read.
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The complainant in the case alleged that he had watched Rahul Gandhi’s press conference and speech in 2022 in which he made remarks on Savarkar, alleging that they were defamatory.
The complainant said Gandhi in his remarks, had said: “Savarkar is BJP and RSS Jin” and that “with a folding hand Savarkar prayed for release and later on promise to work for the British Government.” The complainant claimed that these remarks were aimed at creating a loss of reputation and defaming Savarkar.
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