Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh): Hearing in a 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remark targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah was on Monday postponed by an MP-MLA court here to May 2.
According to Gandhi's counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla, the hearing was scheduled for Monday but could not be held as a judge was yet to be assigned to the court. The MP-MLA court fixed May 2 as the next date of hearing in the matter, he added.
The defamation complaint against Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra six years ago. Last December, the court issued a warrant against Rahul Gandhi. Subsequently, Gandhi halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20, appeared in the court and was granted bail.
