{"id":55507,"date":"2019-02-22T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55507"},"modified":"2019-02-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T07:06:16","slug":"court-issues-summons-to-rahul-gandhi-and-sitaram-yechury-over-comments-after-lankesh-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-summons-to-rahul-gandhi-and-sitaram-yechury-over-comments-after-lankesh-murder","title":{"rendered":"Court issues summons to Rahul Gandhi and Sitaram Yechury over comments after Lankesh murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" data-attachment-id=\"55508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-summons-to-rahul-gandhi-and-sitaram-yechury-over-comments-after-lankesh-murder\/lankesh-murder\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?fit=286%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"286,176\" 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=\"lankesh murder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?fit=286%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55508\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?resize=286%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?w=286&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/lankesh-murder.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a>A metropolitan magistrate&#8217;s court here has issued summons to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury after a defamation complaint was filed by an RSS worker for allegedly linking journalist Gauri Lankesh&#8217;s murder with &#8220;BJP-RSS ideology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>RSS worker and lawyer Dhrutiman Joshi had filed a private complaint in the court in 2017 against Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the CPI (M) and its general secretary Yechury.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate P K Deshpande on February 18 ordered that &#8220;process be issued&#8221; against Rahul Gandhi and Yechury.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, dismissed the complaint against Sonia Gandhi and the CPI(M), saying a party cannot be held liable for comments made by individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was set for further hearing on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Lankesh was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru in September 2017, allegedly by the members of a right-wing extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi alleged that within 24 hours of Lankesh&#8217;s death, Rahul Gandhi told mediapersons that &#8220;anybody who speaks against the ideology of the BJP, against the ideology of the RSS is pressured, beaten, attacked and even killed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yechury too stated that it was the RSS&#8217; ideology and the RSS men who had killed the journalist known for her trenchant criticism of right-wing politics, he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi claimed that these statements slandered the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and therefore a case of criminal defamation under IPC section 500 be registered against Rahul Gandhi, Yechury, CPI(M) and Sonia Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>He named the CPI(M) because Yechury belongs to that party and Sonia Gandhi because she was then Congress chief.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress president is already facing another case for defamation, filed by a Bhiwandi-based RSS worker, for allegedly blaming the Sangh for Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A metropolitan magistrate&#8217;s court here has issued summons to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury after a defamation complaint was filed by an RSS worker for allegedly linking journalist Gauri Lankesh&#8217;s murder with &#8220;BJP-RSS ideology&#8221;. 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