MUMBAI, INDIA - JULY 4: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi appeared at a court in Mumbai on Thursday morning for a defamation case hearing, filed against him by a Mumbai-based lawyer and RSS worker, on July 4, 2019 in Mumbai, India. The court had issued summons against Rahul Gandhi and CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury for their alleged defamatory comments linking journalist Gauri Lankeshs killing with the BJP-RSS ideology. Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru in September 2017, allegedly by members of a right-wing extremist group. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times )