Barely a month after a court in Gujarat’s Surat convicted and sentenced Congress scion Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case, a similar case has now been filed against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav for his alleged remarks against Gujaratis.

According to reports, a defamation suit has been filed against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in a court in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad for his alleged ‘only Gujarati can be a fraudster’ remark made after the Interpol withdrew the Red Corner Notice (RCN) against fugitive Indian diamantaire Mehul Choksi.

Commenting on the development, Tejashwi Yadav reportedly said that the current scenario in the country is such that only a Gujarati can be a fraudster as their fraud would be forgiven.

Reports said that an Ahmedabad-based businessman, Haresh Mehta, has filed a complaint against the Bihar Deputy CM in Metropolitan Court of Ahmedabad.

In his complaint, Mehta said he saw Tejashwi’s remarks in the news and it hurts the pride of Gujaratis.

Based on Mehta’s complaint, a case has been registered against Tejashwi Yadav under Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which deal with defining defamation and its punishment, respectively.

 The Ahmedabad court has set May 1 as the date for the hearing in the case and is likely to issue summons to Tejashwi Yadav.

On March 23, a magistrate court in Surat convicted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years in jail. The conviction led to his disqualification from the Lok Sabha and losing his MP status.

The disqualification which will prevent 52-year-old Gandhi, a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years unless a higher court stays the conviction, has kicked up a political storm with the Congress staging a countrywide satyagraha last month to protest the decision.

On Saturday, Rahul Gandhi vacated the official Tughlaq Lane bungalow which was allotted to him as MP.

Last week, a sessions court in Gujarat’s Surat city dismissed Gandhi’s plea seeking a stay to his conviction in the “Modi surname” remark criminal defamation case.

A man accused of abducting and raping a minor girl was garlanded with shoes, stripped naked and paraded around while being assaulted by a mob in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.

According to the police, the 19-year-old, who is accused of abducting and raping a 13-year-old girl, was stripped naked by some people and paraded around the area with a garland of shoes around his neck in Bhukri Tekri area of Indore city on Monday.

A senior police official said the cops took cognizance after the video of the incident surfaced on social media platforms today.

Confirming the video’s authenticity, Kanadiya police station in-charge Jagdish Prasad Jamre, said the 19-year-old accused was arrested on Wednesday for the alleged rape and kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl, adding the victim’s medical examination has confirmed that she was sexually assaulted.

The senior officer said that before the accused was arrested, the rape victim’s family and relatives, stripped him naked and paraded him around the area with a garland of shoes around his neck.

The accused was also thrashed by the victim’s family and while being paraded naked, he was whipped by children while women surrounded him and cursed him.

Giving details, officer Jamre said the accused, identified as Ritik, allegedly persuaded the minor girl to accompany him to a secluded area near the Indore Bypass where he raped her. However, the girl’s family who were looking for their daughter, found them, brought the man back to Bhuri Tekri area, where they punished him by parading him naked with a garland of shoes around his neck as children whipped him while the women hurled curses.

He said the young man has been booked for rape and kidnapping under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), while the people who assaulted him have also been booked in a separate case.

An Indian national, Sundar Nagarajan, was arrested by the Scotland Yard in the UK for allegedly funding Lebanon-based Islamist armed group Hezbollah, and denied bail by a British court despite arguing the comes from a Hindu background and does not support Islamic extremist groups.

65-year-old Madurai-born Nagarajan, who appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday via video link and was represented by in the court by his lawyer who denied all charges of money laundering and fraud against him.

The defence lawyer in his argument told the court that his client was of a Hindu background and did not support Islamist extremism, however, District Judge Briony Clarke, rejected Nagarajan’s bail and remanded him to custody till May 23 when the next hearing in the case is scheduled to take place in the same court.

Nagarajan was again ordered to appear via video link for his next hearing.

Nagarajan, alias Nagarajan Sundar Poongulam Kasiviswanathan Naga and Sundar Poongulam K Nagarajan Nagarajan, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s National Extradition Unit from an address at Hayes in west London on April 18.

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The court was told that armed policemen stormed his house and arrested him while also seizing his belongings.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), on behalf of the US authorities, told the court that Nagarajan is the accountant linked to the finances of the designated Hezballah terrorist organisation and is wanted by the US authorities for fraud and money laundering offences.

Following Nagarajan’s arrest, the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, arrested another suspect from Wales on terror funding suspicion.

The CPS told the court that the NTFIU’s (National Terrorist Financing Investigation Unit) ongoing probe and arrests are related to suspected terrorist financing and money laundering, believed to be connected to Nazem Ahmad, a wealthy art collector and diamond dealer, who is suspected of funding the Hezbollah armed group, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and the US.

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