Mumbai Court to Hear Defamation Case Against Rahul on 4 July

Mumbai, July 04: Rahul Gandhi is likely to appear in a court here on Thursday morning in connection with a defamation case filed by an RSS worker against him for allegedly linking journalist Gauri Lankesh's killing with the "BJP-RSS ideology".

A Congress source said he would attend the hearing.

The Mazgaon metropolitan magistrate's court, in February, issued summons to Gandhi and CPM leader Sitaram Yechury in response to a private complaint filed by Dhrutiman Joshi, a lawyer and worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Joshi had filed the complaint in 2017 against Rahul Gandhi, the then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its general secretary Yechury.