Sultanpur (UP), An MP-MLA court here on Friday adjourned the hearing in the 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said that due to the death of a lawyer, a condolence meeting was organized in the court on Friday and the hearing was postponed till June 18.
The Congress leader appeared in court in the defamation case in February and was granted bail. The complaint against Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra.
Last December, the court had issued a warrant against Gandhi. Subsequently, the Congress leader stopped his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20, appeared in the court and got bail.
A complaint was filed against Gandhi on August 4, 2018, for alleged objectionable comments he made against Shah at a press conference in Bengaluru in May the same year during the Karnataka elections.
The complainant cited Gandhi's comments that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but its party president is an "accused" in a murder case. Shah was the BJP president when Gandhi made this comment.
Nearly four years before Gandhi's comments, a special CBI court in Mumbai had acquitted Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was minister of state for home in Gujarat.
Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said that due to the death of a lawyer, a condolence meeting was organized in the court on Friday and the hearing was postponed till June 18.
The Congress leader appeared in court in the defamation case in February and was granted bail. The complaint against Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra.
Last December, the court had issued a warrant against Gandhi. Subsequently, the Congress leader stopped his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20, appeared in the court and got bail.
A complaint was filed against Gandhi on August 4, 2018, for alleged objectionable comments he made against Shah at a press conference in Bengaluru in May the same year during the Karnataka elections.
The complainant cited Gandhi's comments that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but its party president is an "accused" in a murder case. Shah was the BJP president when Gandhi made this comment.
Nearly four years before Gandhi's comments, a special CBI court in Mumbai had acquitted Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was minister of state for home in Gujarat.
