Rahul Gandhi vs RSS: All you need to know about the defamation case

At a rally in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, in 2014, Rahul Gandhi reportedly took on the RSS saying that “RSS people killed Gandhiji. The Supreme Court on Tuesday told Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi that he must either apologise or face trial for his remarks accusing that the RSS was responsible for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. A bench comprising Judges Dipak Misra and RF Nariman said that he cannot make a collective denunciation, “We have held it may be historically correct but the factor the statement has to meet the test of public good.” The Congress vice-president had earlier moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Bombay High Court order dismissing his plea for quashing the defamation case against him. Rajesh Kunte, the secretary of Bhiwandi unit of RSS, alleged that Rahul at an election rally blamed the RSS for Gandhi’s death.