Lucknow: The MP-MLA court in Sultanpur issued on Saturday a second summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed against him for his remarks against Union home minister Amit Shah.
The court had earlier directed Gandhi to appear before it on Saturday but since he failed to turn up the court issued another summons directing him to appear on January 6.
The case was filed by a local BJP functionary, Vijay Mishra, in 2018, accusing Rahul of making inappropriate remarks against Shah during the 2018 Karnataka assembly elections.
Mishra, a former vice-president of BJP’s Sultanpur unit, had filed the defamation suit based on video footage of a press conference in Bengaluru in which Gandhi had purportedly addressed Shah as a “murder accused”.
Mishra’s lawyer, Santosh Pandey, said that judge Yogesh Yadav, after hearing the arguments, had reserved the verdict in November last year and had summoned Gandhi on December 16.
