Rahul Gandhi was asked to appear in a court in Pune in Maharashtra. Satyaki Savarkar, grandson of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, had filed a defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi, on which the court had asked him to appear in the court, but Rahul Gandhi did not appear before the court. He gave the reason behind this that he did not receive the summons.
In fact, Satyaki Savarkar said in a complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi in the Pune court that Rahul Gandhi, who went to London in March, had said in one of his speeches that Savarkar expressed happiness over the beating of a Muslim man in a book. Is. In the complaint, Satyaki told that Rahul Gandhi has written in Savarkar’s book that 5-6 of his friends had once beaten up a Muslim man. This made him very happy. A petition was filed against this in the court, in which it was clearly stated that Savarkar had not written this anywhere in any book. In the preliminary investigation of Vishrambag police regarding this matter, the complaint has been found to be true.
Summons issued on 23 October
In this case, after the hearing on October 4 under the chairmanship of Joint Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Amol Shinde, Rahul Gandhi was asked to appear in the court. For this, summons were also issued on 23 October. This hearing took place in MP/MLA court. But Rahul Gandhi did not appear in the court. He said that he had not received any summons.
While talking to the media, Satyaki Savarkar’s lawyer Kolhatkar told that on Monday he has appealed in the court that summons should be sent to Rahul Gandhi to appear in the court.
