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Jurist India court grants bail to prominent opposition leader in defamation case

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A local court in the Indian city of Bengaluru granted bail on Friday to Rahul Gandhi, a prominent leader from the opposition Indian National Congress (INC), in a defamation case filed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate allowed Gandhi’s bail application. In its order, the court said, “The alleged offenses are bailable in nature. Hence the bail application filed on behalf Accused No.4 is allowed. The Accused Accused No.4 [Gandhi] is released on bail on executing personal bond of Rs.50,000/- with one surety for like sum.”

The court passed the order in the aftermath of the recently concluded general elections in India, in which INC emerged as the second-largest party. The BJP, the former ruling party and the largest party in the polls, filed a defamation case against the INC’s Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee and leaders Gandhi, D.K Shivakumar, and Siddaramaiah.

The case against the INC leaders and Karnataka Committee was filed for their alleged defamatory acts of publishing a “corruption rate card” of Karnataka’s ruling BJP government and calling the BJP’s government in the state a “trouble engine sarkar [government].” This is a wordplay on BJP’s slogan of a “double engine sarkar [government],” referring to having a BJP government at both the state and national level.

BJP’s political alliance called the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is comprised of more than a dozen political parties, achieved the majority in the general elections. The leaders from the alliance approached the Indian president on Friday, who invited them to form the nation’s central government. Narendra Modi, elected internally in the alliance to lead the government, will assume the role of prime minister for the third time with the formation of the NDA government.

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