The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (September 8) refused to quash the criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged remarks describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Choro Ke Sardar” and “Commander-in-Thief”.
Gandhi had challenged Magistrate court summons in the case and argued that the complaint filed by a BJP worker was not maintainabile.
He claiming that he had not named the party and that no “identifiable or definite class” had been targeted, in the absence of which there is no clearly aggrieved person or group having locus standi to prosecute the case.
Single-judge Justice Nitin Borkar rejected Gandhi's argument and held that being a registered national political party, the BJP is definitely an identifiable body.
