Ranchi: Congress MP and LoP Rahul Gandhi on August 6 appeared before the MP-MLA Special Court in Chaibasa of Jharkhand in connection with a defamation case registered against him over his alleged remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018.
In 2018, Rahul Gandhi had reportedly said that a murderer can become president of the BJP, but this cannot happen in Congress.
The Congress MP on Wednesday appeared before the court and was granted bail by the court.
Earlier the Jharkhand High Court on June 11 had directed Rahul Gandhi to appear before the Chaibasa court on August 6 after the Congress MP approached the court, challenging the earlier order of the special court.
The court had also stayed the non-bailable warrant issued earlier by the Chaibasa court until the next hearing.
The case pertains to a complaint filed by one Pratap Kumar against Gandhi for his remarks targeting the then BJP president Amit Shah in 2018.
According to the complainant’s counsel Vinod Kumar Sahu, the matter pertains to a statement made by the then Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the Congress session against Amit Shah who was the then national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“He made a statement that no murderer can become the national president in Congress and that Congress people 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. Affected by this, my client, BJP leader Pratap Kumar, had filed a defamation case against him. He was given a legal notice earlier. No reply was received, so a defamation case was filed, and based on sufficient evidence, the court summoned him,” stated Sahu
(With inputs from agencies)
