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Rahul Gandhi granted bail in 2018 defamation case

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail on February 20, by a special court in Sultanpur in a defamation case filed by a BJP leader for his remarks against Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018. The complainant referred to Mr. Gandhi's comment that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an "accused" in a murder case. About four years before Mr. Gandhi's remark, a special CBI court in Mumbai had discharged Mr. Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was a minister of state for home in Gujarat. Mr. Gandhi could not attend the last hearing in the special MP-MLA court on January 18 due as he was busy with his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.

The Hindu

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