Rahul Gandhi ‘Not Guilty’ In 2018 Defamation Case Over Remarks Against Amit Shah | Sultanpur | UP

A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur has acquitted Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case over his 2018 remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shubham Verma ruled that Gandhi’s remarks were not defamatory in nature. The case was filed by BJP leader Vinay Mishra, who alleged that Gandhi had referred to Shah as an accused in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. Shah was discharged by a special CBI court in 2014. Gandhi was previously convicted in a separate defamation case in 2023, a verdict later stayed by the Supreme Court.