A court in Mumbai has summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation complaint against him for his "commander-in-thief" remark while attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year over the Rafale fighter jet deal.
The Girgaum metropolitan magistrate issued the summons on 28 August directing the Congress MP from Wayanad to appear, either in person or through his lawyer, on 3 October.
The defamation complaint was filed by a person named Mahesh Shrishrimal in September last year.
In a veiled attack, Gandhi had called the prime minister "commander-in-thief" last year.