Today, a special court in Sultanpur has issued bail to the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2018 defamation case. During the elections in Karnataka, Vijay Mishra started inspecting the case on August 4, 2018. The case has its roots from the remarks on Gandhi made against the Home minister Amit Shah during a press conference in Bengaluru on 8th May, 2018.
Amit Shah was the president of BJP at the time of Rahul Gandhi’s comment. The complaint represents Rahul Gandhi’s statement during which he said that while the BJP professes a decision to honest and clean politics, it is led by a party president who is an “accused” in a murder case.
The news was reported by ANI on X. It reads, “Sultanpur, UP: On Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi being granted bail by District Court, Advocate Santosh Pandey says, “Rahul Gandhi surrendered in the court today. He surrendered and the court took him into custody for 30-45 minutes. After that, his bail application was submitted and was accepted by the court. The further date has not been given yet. His lawyer said that he is innocent and he has not made any defamatory statement.”