New Delhi/IBNS, Aug. 4 -- The Supreme Court on Monday lashed out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his claims that China had occupied 2,000 kilometers of Indian land and asked for a reason behind such an assertion, media reports said.

A top court bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih slammed Rahul's remark which he passed during his nationwide mass outreach campaign, Bharat Jodo Yatra.

The court rapped Rahul even after staying the proceedings in the criminal defamation case against the Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha.

The bench has issued a notice to quash the defamation case.

Rahul had made the claim in the backdrop of the 2020 deadly Galwan clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers along Line of Actual Control (LAC).

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