Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has filed a plea before the Jharkhand High Court, challenging the non-bailable warrant issued against him by the MP-MLA Special Court in Chaibasa for his remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah..As reported by The Hindu, this is the second non-bailable warrant issued by the Chaibasa court. It has directed Gandhi to appear before it on June 26.On February 27, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant against Rahul Gandhi for failing to appear and participate in the trial. Gandhi had challenged this order in the Jharkhand High Court, which subsequently stayed the warrant..A complaint was filed by one Pratap Katiyar, a resident of Chaibasa, alleging that Gandhi made derogatory remarks Shah during a Congress convention in 2018. Gandhi in his statements had allegedly accused Shah of being involved in murder. He was granted interim protection from arrest in the case in May 2022..Notably, in February this year, the High Court had rejected Gandhi's petition to quash the criminal defamation case.The Court had noted that Gandhi had said that BJP leaders are liars who are drunk with power and that BJP workers will accept a person accused of murder as their President. These statements by Gandhi are prima facie defamatory in nature under Section 499 of Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Court had said.
