{"id":53112,"date":"2018-06-12T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53112"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T06:55:58","slug":"rahul-pleaded-not-guilty-in-a-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rahul-pleaded-not-guilty-in-a-defamation-case","title":{"rendered":"Rahul pleaded not guilty in a defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thane:\u00a0<\/b>Congress President Rahul Gandhi today pleaded not guilty in a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker in a court here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-attachment-id=\"53113\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rahul-pleaded-not-guilty-in-a-defamation-case\/congress-president-rahul-gandhi-karnataka-2018-2-770x433\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?fit=770%2C433&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"770,433\" 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=\"Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770&amp;#215;433\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Congress-president-Rahul-Gandhi-Karnataka-2018-2-770x433.jpg?resize=770%2C433&amp;ssl=1 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gandhi arrived at the court in Bhiwandi at 11.10 am amid heavy security cover and was greeted by hoards of people raising slogans in his support.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the court, when Judge A I Sheikh, read out charges against him, Gandhi said, &#8220;I am not guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court had on May 2 asked Gandhi to appear before it today to record his plea in the defamation case filed by RSS worker Rajesh Kunte in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Kunte had filed the case after watching Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s speech at an election rally in which he had alleged that the RSS was behind the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The RSS people had killed (Mahatma) Gandhi,&#8221; the Congress president had allegedly said in the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thane:\u00a0Congress President Rahul Gandhi today pleaded not guilty in a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker in a court here. 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