In a significant relief for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the Gauhati High Court has quashed an order of a lower court that had allowed the examination of additional witnesses in a nine-year-old criminal defamation case filed by an RSS worker.

A single-judge bench of Justice Arun Dev Choudhury, on Monday, set aside the September 2023 order of the Additional Sessions Judge No. 2, Kamrup (Metropolitan), which had permitted three more witnesses to be listed against Gandhi. The case is being tried before a magistrate’s court.

The criminal defamation case was filed by RSS worker Anjan Kumar Bora after Gandhi alleged in December 2015 that he was barred by RSS workers from entering the Barpeta Satra, a Vaishnavite monastery in Assam. Bora claimed that these statements were false and defamator

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