NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday stated “all are handled equally” after the complainant’s counsel in a defamation case in opposition to Chief of Opposition and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated the matter had not been listed for listening to for a very long time.The highest court docket is listening to Rahul’s petition difficult a Might 29 order handed final 12 months by the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.Senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia, showing for the complainant within the case in opposition to Rahul, urged the bench to listen to the matter and de-tag it from the 2 different pleas.The bench requested Bhatia to file an applicable utility looking for the identical.Bhatia additionally requested the bench to repair a particular date for listening to Rahul’s plea.“The final order says that checklist it on April 22. Simply because an individual is concerned, the matter will not be being listed. I’m solely saying that the matter be heard and de-tagged,” he stated, as cited by PTI.Bhatia stated the matter had not been listed regardless of a judicial order directing that or not it’s taken up, including that the state of affairs didn’t augur nicely for the establishment.“He isn’t a VVIP that the matter is not going to be listed. He’s having fun with the keep,” he stated.“You observe the process and file an utility looking for early listening to. All are handled equally. You file your separate utility,” the bench noticed.The Excessive Court docket had dismissed Rahul’s plea difficult the trial court docket’s summoning order within the case over his alleged derogatory remarks in opposition to the Indian Military throughout his 2022 Bharat Jodo Yatra.On August 4 final 12 months, the Supreme Court docket had stayed additional proceedings within the grievance case pending earlier than a Lucknow court docket till the subsequent date of listening to.On December 4, the apex court docket had admitted Rahul’s enchantment and stated it might hear the matter intimately. It had subsequently listed the case for listening to on April 22.The Supreme Court docket had earlier issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh authorities and complainant Udai Shankar Srivastava, looking for their responses to Rahul’s plea.
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Earlier than the trial court docket, the complainant had alleged that Rahul made a number of derogatory remarks in opposition to the Indian Military in reference to the clashes between Indian and Chinese language troops throughout his December 2022 yatra.The trial court docket subsequently summoned Rahul as an accused to face trial on the alleged cost of defamation.Rahul’s counsel had denied the allegations and argued earlier than the Excessive Court docket that the trial court docket had failed to think about the entire information and materials earlier than figuring out whether or not a defamation case was made out in opposition to him.