Rajasthan HC quashes investigation into BJP Prez, IT cell chief regarding tweet on RaGa

Rajasthan HC quashes investigation into BJP IT cell chief's tweet on Rahul Gandhi regarding Bhilwara model to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The petitioners, BJP chief JP Nadda and Amit Malviya argued that cases filed in this regard were politically motivated.

Jaipur: In a major relief for BJP president JP Nadda and party's IT cell chief Amit Malviya, the Rajasthan High Court has stayed further investigation in a case filed against the BJP duo for allegedly twisting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's message to party workers on the COVID-induced nationwide lockdown.

According to reports, the order was passed by a single bench of Judge Mahendra Goyal while hearing the petition filed by Nadda and Amit Malviya.

On behalf of the petitioners, senior advocate Raj Deepak Rastogi said that the case was completely politically motivated and the petitioner was being falsely implicated.

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Advocate RD Rastogi argued that Congress had filed such complaints across many districts, terming it politically motivated.

Earlier, the Jodhpur bench had already quashed FIR filed from Hanumangarh against the duo.

The Congress, in Rajasthan's Bundi district, had filed a case against the BJP president IT cell in-charge for allegedly twisting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's message.

In his tweet, Malviya had commented on former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with regards to Sonia Gandhi crediting him for the success of Rajasthan's Bhilwara model to contain the spread of COVID-19. Nadda had constantly maintained that he had no role in the tweet.