Rahul Gandhi acquitted in Amit Shah defamation case; convoy vehicles crash en route
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A court in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, acquitted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday in a criminal defamation case stemming from remarks he made about Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shubham Verma ruled that Gandhi’s comments were not defamatory, according to Scroll.in. The Indian Express reported that the court also found that Vijay Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader who filed the complaint, was not an aggrieved person.
Mishra filed the case in August 2018 after Gandhi referred to Shah as a “murder accused” during a press conference in Bengaluru amid the Karnataka Assembly election campaign. Shah, then the BJP’s national president, had previously faced allegations in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case but was discharged by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in 2014. The Supreme Court upheld that decision in 2016.
Gandhi attended court for the verdict. While he was travelling from Lucknow to Sultanpur, several vehicles that had joined his convoy collided on the Purvanchal Expressway after a vehicle near the front braked suddenly, according to police accounts cited by Scroll.in. Gandhi’s vehicle was ahead of the collision and he was unhurt.
Initial reports said party workers and security personnel were injured, but Sultanpur Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal later said no one was injured. Uttar Pradesh Police formed a special investigation team to examine the cause of the crash and possible lapses in security, escort arrangements or traffic management.
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