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Sultanpur, Feb 20: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail by a special court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday in connection with a defamation lawsuit brought by a BJP politician about comments he made in 2018 regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Rahul Gandhi appeared in court today after being unable to attend the previous hearing at the special MP-MLA court on January 18 due to his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
His attorney, Kashi Prasad Shukla, told reporters that Judge Yogesh Yadav granted him bail following the completion of bail bonds.
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Defamation case for calling Amit Shah murder accused
On August 4, 2018, BJP leader Vijay Mishra filed a lawsuit regarding Gandhi’s purportedly derogatory remarks against Shah, which were allegedly made during a press conference in Bengaluru on May 8, 2018, amidst the Karnataka elections.
The complaint made reference to Gandhi’s remark in which he said that despite the BJP’s professed commitment to honourable and transparent politics, its president is an accused in a murder case. Gandhi made the comment when Shah was the president of the BJP.
Around four years preceding Gandhi’s statement, Amit Shah was acquitted by a special CBI court in Mumbai in a 2005 fake encounter case, during his time as Gujarat’s minister of home affairs.
“The BJP is the biggest party of the country. Calling its (then) president a murderer is unjustifiable,” the plaintiff Mishra said on Tuesday.
