The case was filed by BJP member Mahesh Srishrimal in the Girgaum Magistrate Court in 2018.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has moved the Bombay High Court to quash a defamation case filed by a local BJP leader.
Mahesh Srishrimal had filed the case in the Girgaum Magistrate Court in 2018. It said Mr Gandhi had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a ‘chor mein commander’. Srisrimal was feeling discredited for being a member of his own party.
In July 2021, a magisterial court issued summons to Mr Gandhi, but he could not appear due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Gandhi, through advocate Kushal Mor, on November 12 filed a criminal petition before the High Court for quashing of the case on the ground that the party is personally and directly aggrieved in the defamation case.
The matter is expected to come up for hearing on November 22 before a single bench of Justice SK Shinde.
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