India, May 10 -- Satyaki Savarkar, grandnephew of VD Savarkar, on Friday filed a complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for "wilfully abstaining" from recording his plea before a Pune court in a defamation case over "objectionable" remarks about the late Hindutva ideologue.

The complaint was filed before the special court for cases against MPs/MLAs through Satyaki's lawyer Sangram Kolhatkar after Gandhi's lawyer Milind Pawar sought adjournment, stating his client had yet to go through the material obtained from the complainant regarding the case.

The court posted the matter for hearing on May 28. Notably, the court has already granted Gandhi permanent exemption from attending the trial.

Advocate Kolhatkar argued that the court ...