{"id":57439,"date":"2026-10-26T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57439"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:54:18","slug":"rahul-gandhi-acquitted-by-up-court-in-2018-amit-shah-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rahul-gandhi-acquitted-by-up-court-in-2018-amit-shah-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi acquitted by UP court in 2018 Amit Shah defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>India Today<\/strong>: A special MP\/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Sultanpur on Monday acquitted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2018 criminal defamation case over remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, citing a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi appeared before the court for the pronouncement of the verdict. His supporters welcomed the decision and expressed happiness and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra, a resident of Hanumanganj under the Kotwali Dehat police station limits in Sultanpur and a former chairman of the Sultanpur District Cooperative Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Mishra filed the complaint on August 4, 2018, over remarks Gandhi made about Shah during a campaign rally in Bengaluru ahead of the 2018 Karnataka Assembly elections.\u00a0Congress welcomed the verdict claiming, &#8220;Truth alone triumps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Today: A special MP\/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Sultanpur on Monday acquitted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2018 criminal defamation case over remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, citing a lack of evidence. Gandhi appeared before the court for the pronouncement of the verdict. His supporters welcomed the decision and expressed happiness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57441,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439\/revisions\/57441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}