Pune: A magisterial court in the city on Monday deferred till Oct 4 the hearing of a defamation case filed by Satyaki Savarkar , the grandnephew of late freedom fighter Vinayak Savarkar, accusing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of making defamatory statements against the late freedom fighter during his visit to the United Kingdom on March 5, 2023. Judicial magistrate first class Akshi Jain had passed an order on May 30, directing summons to be issued to Gandhi to secure his presence before the court on Aug 19. But the summons could not be executed for reasons not known.
Savarkar’s lawyer, Sangram Kolhatkar, told TOI, “The court employees told us that the matter had been deferred as the presiding magistrate was on leave.” Gandhi’s lawyer, Asim Sarode, said, “Our client has not received summons at his residence or office in Delhi. He would appear before the magistrate on receiving the summons.
” Lawyer Milind Pawar, representing state Congress vice-president Mohan Joshi, said, “My client would be filing a third-party application to make Congress party’s Pune unit a party in the defamation case on Oct 4 so that he can furnish evidence to show that the allegations made in Savarkar’s complaint are false and baseless.” We also published the following articles recently Delhi University will teach Gandhi, Ambedkar, Savarkar, but not Iqbal, says vice-chancellor Delhi University's vice-chancellor, Yogesh Singh, announced that Allama Iqbal, who is seen as the initiator o.