Derogatory remarks on Savarkar: court fines Rahul Rs 200
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Lucknow: Over the matter of Rahul Gandhi’s alleged derogatory remarks against Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow fined him Rs 200. The court fined him after he did not appear in a complaint case in which he has been summoned as an accused, Live Law reported.
Congress MP and LoP in Loksabha, Rahul, allegedly made the remarks in November 2022 during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra’s Akola.
It was Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Alok Verma who imposed the fine after allowing Rahul’s plea seeking an exemption from appearance in the case.
The court issued a summons to the Congress stalwart, observing that he had spread hatred and ill will in society through his speech and by distributing pamphlets before addressing a press conference.
Rahul had said that Savarkar was a servant of the British and that he had taken a pension from the imperial colonisers.
Alok Verma’s order, passed in December, read, "Distributing previously printed pamphlets and leaflets at press conferences demonstrates that Rahul Gandhi had weakened and insulted the basic characteristics of the nation by spreading hatred and enmity in the society."