In a relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the Gauhati High Court has quashed a lower court order allowing additional witnesses against the Lok Sabha MP in a nine-year-old criminal defamation case filed by one RSS worker.
Issuing an order in a criminal revision petition, a single judge Bench of Arun Dev Choudhury on Monday (October 13, 2025) set aside the order by the additional sessions judge of Kamrup Metropolitan allowing more witnesses in the defamation case, which was being heard in a trial court.
In a criminal defamation petition by RSS worker Anjan Kumar Bora, the trial court magistrate, in March 2023, disallowed the listing of three additional witnesses after completion of the process with the recording of statements from six witnesses.
Mr. Bora had challenged this, and the additional sessions judge of Kamrup Metropolitan had, in September, allowed admission of the new witnesses against Mr. Gandhi.
The leader of the opposition, represented by Senior Advocate Angshuman Bora, challenged this order in the Gauhati High Court in July 2024.
