Uttarakhand court issues third summons to Assam CM for derogatory remarks about Rahul Gandhi

‘Did we ever ask you to prove that you are Rajiv Gandhi’s son?’ Himanta Biswa Sarma had said last year at an election rally.

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· Oct 18, 2023 · 06:20 pm

Rahul Gandhi’s conviction stayed by SC in defamation case, Lok Sabha membership to be restored

A Surat court had sentenced the Congress leader for asking why many thieves had the surname Modi, leading to his immediate disqualification from Parliament.

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· Aug 04, 2023 · 01:43 pm

Rahul Gandhi tells SC he will not apologise for Modi surname remark

The Congress leader faces two years of imprisonment if his conviction in the criminal defamation case is not stayed.

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· Aug 03, 2023 · 12:18 pm

Delhi court issues fresh summons to BBC, Internet Archive and Wikimedia in defamation case

The case pertains to the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

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· Jul 08, 2023 · 02:00 pm

Jharkhand HC grants interim protection to Rahul Gandhi in Modi surname defamation case

The Congress leader has already been convicted by a Gujarat court for his comments made in 2019.

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· Jul 05, 2023 · 09:19 am

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge summoned by Punjab court in defamation case

The plea contended that during the recently-concluded Karnataka Assembly elections, the party compared the Bajrang Dal with anti-national organisations.

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· May 15, 2023 · 03:36 pm

Defamation case filed against former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi

Assam Public Works president Abhijeet Sharma has accused the Rajya Sabha MP of making defamatory statements about him in Gogoi’s autobiography.

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· May 11, 2023 · 08:23 pm

‘Rahul Gandhi has power of truth’: Opposition alleges vendetta after conviction in defamation case

The Congress MP has been sentenced to a two-year jail term for making allegedly defamatory comments about the prime minister’s surname.

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· Mar 23, 2023 · 02:38 pm

Rahul Gandhi sentenced to two years in jail for remarks about Modi surname

‘Why all the thieves, be it Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi or Narendra Modi, have Modi in their names?’ he had allegedly asked at a poll rally in Karnataka in 2019.

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· Mar 23, 2023 · 11:21 am

Delhi HC stays trial in Tajinder Bagga’s defamation case against journalist Swati Chaturvedi

In 2017, she had tweeted that the BJP leader had not only beaten up a lawyer once but was also arrested in a sexual harassment case.

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· Mar 07, 2023 · 04:52 pm

Ghulam Nabi Azad sends defamation notice to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for calling him traitor

The notice also alleged that Ramesh deliberately used the name Ghulam to imply the meaning slave, which it translates to in Urdu, to defame the politician.

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· Feb 25, 2023 · 02:50 pm

Delhi HC stays proceedings against two BJP leaders in defamation case filed by Manish Sisodia

The case was filed after the two leaders had alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party was involved in a scam pertaining to the construction of classrooms.

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· Jan 05, 2023 · 04:59 pm