Bombay HC pulls up RSS worker for delaying trial in 2014 defamation case against Rahul
Granting relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the Bombay High Court last week pulled up Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker Rajesh Kunte for unnecessarily delaying and protracting the trial, causing hurdles for Mr. Gandhi to seek a speedy trial in the 2014 defamation complaint lodged against him by the RSS functionary. On July 12, single Bench judge Justice Prithviraj K. Chavan allowed a writ petition filed by Mr. Gandhi challenging the order of the Bhiwandi magistrate court which permitted Mr. Kunte to rely on certain additional documents in the form of transcript of Mr. Gandhi’s political speech during an election campaign as evidence in the criminal defamation case. He cannot be compelled to be a witness against himself.” In 2014, Mr. Kunte had filed a defamation case before Mumbai’s Bhiwandi magistrate court claiming that Mr. Gandhi had delivered a false and defamatory statement during one of the then election rallies accusing the RSS accountable for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. His plea contended that the court order was in violation of a 2021 order passed by the Bombay High Court’s Justice Revati Mohite-Dere who then had dismissed Mr. Kunte’s petition demanding the admission or denial of Mr. Gandhi’s alleged defamatory speech.
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