Mumbai, May 31 -- A Pune court on Saturday dismissed Rahul Gandhi's application seeking details of the maternal lineage of Satyaki Savarkar, the grand-nephew of Hindutva icon VD Savarkar, in connection with a defamation case filed against the senior Congress leader.
Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Amol Shinde ruled that the matter at hand concerns Rahul Gandhi's alleged defamatory remarks made during a speech in London, not the family tree of Satyaki Savarkar's mother, the late Himani Ashok Savarkar.
The court found no merit in Gandhi's request, stating that the complainant's maternal ancestry was irrelevant to the proceedings and that no further investigation was warranted.
Advocate Milind Pawar, appearing for the Congress leader, ha...