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Topic: Rahul Gandhi defamation case

Yogi strikes hard at gangster Atiq Ahmed’s reign, seizing his properties & giving them back to citizens

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Karnataka resort owners are ‘hung’ on fractured mandate & Rahul’s long walk away from Tughlak Lane

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

All the faces involved in corruption have come together — PM Modi hits out at opposition unity

Modi’s comments come as opposition puts up a united front in light of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as MP, amid a larger chorus surrounding ‘misuse’ of ED and CBI against rivals. 

BJP will take Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Modi insult’ to India’s villages in new campaign for OBC outreach

BJP OBC morcha chief K. Laxman said Tuesday that the party will demand an apology in every village chaupal ‘for the insult’ inflicted by Rahul Gandhi through his comments.

‘Will abide’: Disqualified, Rahul to vacate official bungalow following Lok Sabha directive

The party has slammed the haste behind the order, with chief Mallikarjun Kharge saying it was an attempt to humiliate.

Why didn’t senior Congress lawyers intervene in Rahul Gandhi defamation case, asks BJP

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal claimed that Rahul Gandhi was advised by senior Congress leaders to apologise but he did not do so because he is arrogant.

‘Sympathy for Rahul will go down if he insults Savarkar’ — Uddhav Shiv Sena hits out at ally

In an editorial in mouthpiece 'Saamana', Shiv Sena (UBT) says insulting V.D. Savarkar will make it difficult for Congress leaders in Maharashtra to face the public.

Rahul Gandhi disqualification poses question. Who owns Constitution: Parliament or courts?

Whether it is Law Minister Kiren Rijiju who rages against the judiciary or a colonial-era law that sees Rahul Gandhi ejected out of office, the law and politics relationship goes beyond any reform of a statute.

‘There is no Modi community, complaint raised on WhatsApp’ — Rahul’s lawyer Kirit Panwala on defamation case

Panwala feels that the case itself has no ground. He also says that two years' imprisonment over a line said in a rally is too harsh a punishment.

Don’t bar Rahul Gandhi from contesting election—or any convicted criminal for that matter

Rahul Gandhi's removal from Lok Sabha raises serious concerns about the possibility of political misuse of the disqualification process.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.