Lucknow: Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday received a setback from the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court which dismissed his petition and refused to give any relief in a case of making alleged derogatory remarks on the army.
The court rejected his petition refusing to give him relief in the case.
A complaint has been filed against Rahul Gandhi in a Lucknow court alleging that he had made derogatory remarks on the army during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
During the hearing on the complaint, the Congress leader was summoned by the local court. The defendant had challenged this summoning order in the petition.
The single bench of Judge Subhash Vidyarthi ordered the dismissal of the petition in open court. Additional Advocate General Vinod Kumar Shahi, who appeared on behalf of the state government, opposed the petition.
Shahi said that the court has said that the detailed order will be issued on Monday (June 2). The complaint against the Congress leader alleged that during the Bharat Jodo Yatra he had commented on the army.
Rahul had allegedly said that no one asks anything about the beating of Indian soldiers by Chinese soldiers. Uday Shankar Srivastava filed a complaint against him in a local court of Lucknow on this comment made about the soldiers. On which the court summoned Rahul Gandhi as an accused.
After this, challenging the summons, Rahul filed this petition in the High Court, on which after the initial hearing, the court refused to give relief to Rahul Gandhi and dismissed the petition.
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