A Thane court, on June 18, allowed exemption from appearance to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation suit filed by an RSS activist.
Bhiwandi Judicial Magistrate First Class L. C. Wadikar allowed the application for exemption for the day and adjourned the matter for August 6, Mr. Gandhi's counsel advocate Narayan Iyer told PTI.
“In his application, Mr. Gandhi said his mother and the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was in hospital and he needed exemption from appearance in court on Saturday to tend to her,” he said.