A single bench of Justice N.R. Borkar dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s petition in opposition to the Justice of the Peace court docket’s order. File.
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The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Tuesday (September 8, 2026) declined to quash the plea in opposition to Chief of Opposition (LOP) Rahul Gandhi over his alleged defamatory remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Bombay HC Justice N.R. Borkar was listening to Mr. Gandhi’s plea searching for to quash Justice of the Peace Court docket’s order issuing summons. The Excessive Court docket noticed that it finds “no infirmity” within the impugned order and that is “not a match case for interference in train of inherent jurisdiction below Part 482 of the CrPC”.
Justice Borkar upheld the order of decrease court docket saying “it discovered no perversity and illegality within the order” and in addition allowed Mr. Gandhi six weeks of aid from showing earlier than the Girgaon Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Court docket and time to problem the ruling within the Supreme Court docket.
The listening to was on the plea difficult the legal defamation grievance of native BJP member Mahesh Shrishrimal in Girgaon court docket in Mumbai. The grievance was revamped Mr. Gandhi’s remarks throughout a rally in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on August 20, 2018.
In 2021, November, Bombay Excessive Court docket granted Mr. Gandhi interim aid by directing the Justice of the Peace cCourt to defer the listening to and exempting him to personally be current for the listening to.
Senior advocate Sudeep Pasbola on behalf of Mr. Gandhi, argued that the grievance was politically motivated, whereas the Mr. Shrishrimal’s lawyer Rohan Mahadik argued {that a} prima facie case has been made in opposition to Mr. Gandhi with proof and order was handed based mostly on the evidences.
Printed – September 08, 2026 12:48 pm IST
