Patna, Apr 18 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi today filed a defamation case against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the court of chief judicial magistrate here.
Mr Modi filed the defamation complaint case against Mr Gandhi through his counsel Arjun Kumar in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (In charge) Kumar Gunjan.
The complaint case had been filed under sections 499 and 500 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The court posted the matter for next hearing on April 22 this year.
In the complaint case, the petitioner claimed Mr Gandhi`s statement made at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13 this year asking why all people with the surname of ‘Modi’ were thieves, amounted to defamation.
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