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I did not blame RSS for Gandhi assassination : Rahul Gandhi tells SC

I did not blame RSS for Gandhi assassination : Rahul Gandhi tells SC

India Blooms News Service | | 24 Aug 2016, 03:38 pm
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IBNS) : In a move that may lead to quashing of a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Vice President on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that he had never blamed the RSS for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, and had spoken about the "persons associated with it", reports said.

Gandhi is facing defamation charges in connection with one of his pre-election speeches that led an RSS activist to haul him to the court.

The Congress Vice President had sought quashing of the case.

Following Gandhi's statement, the two-judge Supreme Court bench comprising Dipak Mishra and RS Nariman said the charge of defaming the RSS would then fall and asked Mahadev Kunte, the complainant, to withdraw the case.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had told Rahul Gandhi that he can not make "wholesale denunciation of an organisation."

"If you won't apologise, you will have to face trial," the court had  said.

Earlier, Gandhi had made the same statement before the Bombay High Court which had refused to quash the charges against him.

Gandhi's counsel Kapil Sibal on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to accept it and quash the charges.

 

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