Rahul Gandhi to Face Trial for Defaming RSS, Says Supreme Court

Rahul in 2015 had refused to apologise to the RSS over his comments.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that Rahul Gandhi, who blamed RSS for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, should not have resorted to “collective denunciation” of an organisation and will have to face trial in the defamation case against him if he does not apologise for his comments.

A suggestion that the Gandhi scion had refused last year when his lawyer, Mr Sibal, told the court that he would prefer to fight the case.

We have held it may be historically correct but the fact or the statement has to meet the test of public good. You can’t make collective denunciation.

Justices Dipak Misra and RF Nariman, Supreme Court Bench