Mumbai: Congress President Rahul Gandhi today deposed in Bhiwandi court at Thane, Maharashtra on Tuesday in connection with a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker. Gandhi arrived in Mumbai this morning on a two-day visit to Maharashtra.
Charges have been framed by the court under section IPC 499 & 500. According to agencies, the Congress President has pleaded ‘no guilty’.
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. Kunte had filed the case after watching Rahul Gandhi’s speech at an election rally in which he had alleged that the RSS was behind the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.”The RSS people had killed (Mahatma) Gandhi,” the Congress president had allegedly said in the rally.
During his two-day visit to Maharashtra, Rahul Gandhi is also expected to address party workers and interact with its corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.