A court in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, on Friday adjourned the hearing in the defamation case against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. The bench asked the Congress scion to be present in court for the next hearing on January 17, 2018, ANI reported.

Addressing an election rally in Maharasthra ahead of the last Lok Sabha election, Gandhi had accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of killing Mahatma Gandhi. Soon after, a RSS activist filed a defamation case against him in Bhiwandi.

A year later, Gandhi turned down the Supreme Court’s offer to express regret in order to get the defamation suit against him quashed. He stood by his remarks when he appeared before the court in Bhiwandi in November 2016. “I can now continue my fight,” he told Congress workers after he was granted bail.

The Supreme Court had earlier reproached the Congress leader, saying: “You can’t make collective denunciations.”