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August 24, 2016 17:54
RSS did not assassinate Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi tells Supreme Court!

The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi may be cleared of defamation charges after he backtracked in the Supreme Court and said he never meant to accuse the whole of the RSS of assassinating Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi.   

Following the Rahul recanting, the defamation case against the Congress vice president may just be dropped. The RSS activist who filed the criminal defamation case had offered to withdraw the case against Rahul if he absolved the RSS of the assassination.

The Congress vice president's counsel, Kapil Sibal, said that, "Rahul Gandhi never accused the RSS as (an) institution for the crime."

"Rahul never blamed the RSS but blamed a person associated with the RSS," the court said it inferred from Rahul's affdavit.

Rahul had made these accusations during a Thane rally in March 2014. "RSS people killed Gandhiji and today their people (BJP) talk of him. They opposed Sardar Patel and Gandhiji," Rahul had said then.

"Why did you make a sweeping statement against the RSS branding everyone associated with the organization in the same brush. You can't make wholesale denunciation of an organization," the SC bench said while hearing the defamation case.

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