India, July 17 -- The sessions court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by BJP Member of Parliament (MP) Narayan Rane, who had sought to quash the summons issued to him in a defamation case filed by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut.
The case relates to Rane's comments during a speech at the Konkan Festival in Bhandup on January 15, 2023, where he allegedly questioned the legitimacy of Raut's candidature in the 2004 Lok Sabha election. Raut's name was not in the voters' list at the time and he had "made a setting and spent money for the same", the BJP MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg had allegedly said, which according to Raut was defamatory and damaging to his reputation.
In an order dated April 23 this year, the judicial magistrate first clas...
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