Rahul’s defamation case to be heard

The defamation case filed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) against Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi’s alleged remark regarding Mahatma Gandhi's assassination will come up for hearing on Friday. He was not present at the last hearing. Last November, Rahul was granted bail on the basis of personal surety by Maharashtra's Bhiwandi court. A local RSS functionary, Rajesh Kunte, had filed the case against Rahul for claiming at an election rally on March 6, 2014, that the right-wing organisation had killed Mahatma Gandhi.

Though the apex court has stayed the proceedings against him, the Congress leader appeared before Magistrate D P Kale in Bhiwandi on July 8 last year. He had in September last year withdrawn his petition filed in the Supreme Court and said that he would face trial.