{"id":68605,"date":"2018-06-12T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T07:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68605"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T07:44:32","slug":"maharashtra-court-frames-charges-against-rahul-gandhi-for-his-derogatory-remarks-against-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68605","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Court frames charges against Rahul Gandhi for his derogatory remarks against RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra, June 12 (TNS): Even as a court in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra framed charges against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his derogatory remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Tuesday, the latter pleaded &#8220;not guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Gandhi were framed under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 499 and 500.<\/p>\n<p>RSS activist Rajesh Kunte had earlier moved the court against Gandhi over his statement made at an election rally in March 2014, wherein he blamed the RSS for Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, Gandhi&#8217;s lawyer had filed an application for exemption from appearance in the court.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2016, Gandhi withdrew his petition filed in the apex court, challenging the case, saying he would face the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The top court had refused to interfere with criminal proceedings pending against him in a trial court.<\/p>\n<p>(TNS\/ANI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra, June 12 (TNS): Even as a court in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra framed charges against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his derogatory remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Tuesday, the latter pleaded &#8220;not guilty.&#8221; The charges against Gandhi were framed under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 499 and 500. RSS activist Rajesh Kunte had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68607,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68605\/revisions\/68607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}