{"id":49861,"date":"2017-09-19T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49861"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T05:21:27","slug":"defamation-complaint-rahul-gandhi-yechury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/defamation-complaint-rahul-gandhi-yechury","title":{"rendered":"Defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Yechury"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49215\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/defamation-case-rahul-court-defers-framing-charges\/rahul-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?fit=261%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"261,174\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rahul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?fit=261%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-49215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?resize=261%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Yechury\" width=\"261\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/rahul.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Yechury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An RSS activist has filed a complaint in a magistrate court here against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury for allegedly linking the organisation to the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have filed a case of criminal defamation and the hearing is likely to take place on October 22,&#8221; lawyer Dhrituman Joshi, who filed the complaint, said.<\/p>\n<p>In the complaint filed on Friday, Joshi cited some purported remarks by Gandhi and Yechury and alleged that they had blamed the RSS for the murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Statements made by the accused and the respective political parties are in utmost sense defamatory and belittle the RSS in the eyes of common public. There was a definite move by the accused to tarnish the image of the RSS, without citing any proof,&#8221; Joshi alleged in his complaint.<\/p>\n<p>He said that being an RSS worker, he was humiliated and defamed before the common people.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint claimed that the comments, which are &#8220;defamatory and detrimental to the image of the RSS&#8221;, have been made without any proof or official statement by the investigating authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi has also made the Congress, its president Sonia Gandhi and the CPI(M) as party to his complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Lankesh was killed on September 6 by unidentified assailants at her residence in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Gandhi is already facing a defamation case in a court at Bhiwandi in Thane district over his alleged comment against the RSS regarding Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An RSS activist has filed a complaint in a magistrate court here against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury for allegedly linking the organisation to the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. &#8220;I have filed a case of criminal defamation and the hearing is likely to take place on October 22,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[319,146,40456,31987,117,80,1533],"class_list":["post-49861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-congress","tag-court","tag-defamation-complaint-against-rahul-gandhi-and-sitaram-yechury","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-rss"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Yechury - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An RSS activist has filed a complaint in a magistrate court here against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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