PUNE, June 1 -- A special court in Pune on Saturday dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking details of the maternal lineage of Satyaki Savarkar, the grand-nephew of VD Savarkar, stating that issue is not relevant to ongoing defamation case. Gandhi's advocate, Milind Pawar, had moved an application on May 28, arguing that complainant, Satyaki, had failed to disclose that Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar was related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, Nathuram Godse. Pawar contended this omission was significant in the ongoing criminal defamation case filed by Satyaki against Gandhi. Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Amol Shinde dismissed the application, observing that the case pertains to an alleged defamatory speech made by Gandhi in London and not to the family tree of late Himani Ashok Savarkar, the mother of Satyaki Savarkar. "The family tree of the late Himani Savarkar is not in dispute in this case. Therefore, the application lacks merit and is liable to be rejected. There is no need for further investigation," the court said. Himani Savarkar was the daughter of Gopal Vinayak Godse, the younger brother of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse. Gandhi, through his counsel Pawar, had submitted that while the complainant had provided details of his paternal ancestry while filing the complaint, his maternal lineage had not been disclosed. Meanwhile, the court also rejected Satyaki Savarkar's application seeking cancellation of Gandhi's bail. Satyaki Savarkar had filed a defamation complaint against Gandhi over his speech in London in March 2023, wherein the Congress leader said that VD Savarkar had written in a book that he and a group of friends once beat up a Muslim man and that Savarkar felt happy about it....