Rahul gets bail in defamation case
The bail was granted by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Alok Verma on production of two sureties of Rs 20,000 each.
The defamation complaint was filed by Uday Shankar Srivastava, a retired director of Border Roads Organisation ( equivalent to the rank of colonel in the Army).
The complaint states that on December 16, 2022, Gandhi, while addressing various media personnel and the public during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, mentioned the clash between the Indian Army and the Chinese Army on the border of Arunachal Pradesh on December 9, 2022 and that some of Gandhi's remarks were 'derogatory'.
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