Sultanpur, Oct 26: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was acquitted on Monday by an MP/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur in a 2018 defamation case over alleged objectionable remarks against then BJP president Amit Shah.
The case relates to remarks Gandhi allegedly made against Shah during a rally in Bengaluru ahead of the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections.
BJP leader Vijay Mishra, a former chairman of the District Cooperative Bank in Sultanpur, had filed the defamation complaint against Gandhi on August 4, 2018.
Additional Civil Judge Shubham Verma, who was hearing the case, had initially fixed October 13 for pronouncing the verdict. The date was subsequently rescheduled to October 26, when the court acquitted Gandhi.
