Pune, Might 9 (PTI) Satyaki Savarkar, grandnephew of V D Savarkar, on Friday filed a grievance towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for “willfully abstaining” from recording his plea earlier than a Pune court docket in a defamation case over `objectionable’ remarks in regards to the late Hindutva ideologue.

The grievance was filed earlier than the particular court docket for circumstances towards MPs/MLAs by means of Satyaki Savarkar’s lawyer Sangram Kolhatkar after Gandhi’s lawyer Milind Pawar sought adjournment, stating his shopper had but to undergo the fabric obtained from the complainant relating to the case.

The court docket posted the matter for listening to on Might 28. Notably, the court docket has already granted Rahul Gandhi everlasting exemption from attending the trial.

Advocate Kolhatkar argued that the court docket was scheduled to file Gandhi’s bail plea on Friday, however the accused willfully abstained from attending the proceedings.

“Whereas granting bail to the accused, the court docket had laid down a situation that he is not going to search adjournment, and the counsel of the accused will stay current on each date of the trial,” acknowledged the grievance.

He sought seizure of Gandhi’s bail bond, and coercive motion to safe his presence.

Advocate Pawar sought time to file a reply. The court docket then adjourned the matter to Might 28.

Satyaki Savarkar has alleged that Rahul Gandhi, at the moment Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha, claimed in a speech in London in March 2023 that V D Savarkar had written in a e-book that he and 5 to 6 of his mates as soon as beat up a Muslim man and he (Savarkar) felt comfortable.

No such incident had ever taken place, and V D Savarkar by no means wrote any such factor anyplace, the grievance acknowledged. 

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