The Allahabad High Court said on Wednesday on Wednesday the opposition leader in Lok Sabha and the Congress deputies Rahul Gandhi that “Article 19 (1) (a) the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of expression and expression, this freedom is subject to reasonable restrictions and does not include freedom to accept any person or comfortable person.”
The High Court in Allahabad dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s plea and questioned the summons issued by the court Lucknow in the event of defamation concerning his alleged derogatory notes against the Indian army during 2022 Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Another chief judge Alok Verma ordered Gandhi to appear for hearing 24 March in the event of a defamation filed against him. Rahul challenged that Rahul moved the High Court.
Dear and slander remark, says the complainant
The complaint was filed by the director of the Border Roads Organization Uday Shankar Srivastava, whose rank is equivalent to the colonel of the army.
He argued that Rahula Gandhi’s statement on 16 December 2022 claims that “Chinese soldiers were beating the Indian Army staff in Arunacal Pradesh”, they were derogatory and slander against the Indian armed forces.
The rejection of the argument of Rahula Gandhi that the complainant was not an officer of the army and that he did not personally cope, noted that under Section 199 (1) of the criminal proceedings, a person could be considered a “deteriorated” person.
Given that Srivastava expressed deep respect for the army and was personally injured by notes, qualified to file a complaint.
The High Court in Allahabad stated: “The court of law reached the decision to summon the applicant to confront the court for a crime under section 500 IPC after taking into account all the relevant facts and circumstances of the case and after making sure that Prima facie for court with the applicant”.
The court further clarified that in this preliminary phase it was not necessary to explore the benefits of competing claims, as this liability lies in the court court. As a result, the action was rejected.
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