Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh):- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was acquitted on Monday by an MP-MLA court here in a defamation case related to remarks he made against then BJP president Amit Shah in 2018. Rahul Gandhi was present in court when the verdict was pronounced.
He had made the remarks at a rally in Bengaluru ahead of the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections. It is worth noting that Vijay Mishra, former chairman of the Sultanpur District Cooperative Bank and a local BJP leader, filed the defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi on August 4, 2018.
Rahul Gandhi appeared before the court in 2023 and secured bail. The court had initially fixed October 13 for the verdict, but the date was later changed to October 26.
Vehicles in Rahul Gandhi’s Convoy Collide
Earlier, while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was travelling to Sultanpur to attend the court hearing in the defamation case filed against him, some vehicles in his convoy collided on the Purvanchal Expressway. A police officer provided information about the incident. The officer said the accident was not serious and no major injuries had been reported.
