Jharkhand court grants bail to Rahul Gandhi over 'Defamatory Remarks'

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail by an MP-MLA court in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa on Wednesday in connection with a case related to alleged defamatory remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in 2018.

Security has been beefed up in and around the court where he reached from the Circuit House in



Ranchi.

A case of defamation was filed against Gandhi by a person named Pratap Kumar for allegedly making defamatory statements to Union Home Minister Shah at a rally in Chaibasa in 2018.

Kumar, in his petition filed before the court of the magistrate in Chaibasa, had alleged that Gandhi’s statements were defamatory and made purposely to malign the stature of Shah.