Bengaluru, February 17 The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed the defamation case filed by the BJP against top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
The case was filed in 2023, when the BJP was in power in Karnataka, following the publication of a "corruption rate card" by the then opposition Congress to claim widespread irregularities in the state under the saffron party's rule.
Along with Gandhi, who is now the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the BJP had also accused the then Karnataka LoP Siddaramaiah and Congress state president D K Shivakumar.
Currently, Siddaramaiah is the Chief Minister and Shivakumar is his deputy.
Challenging the defamation case, Gandhi had approached the High Court, stating that continuing the case would be an abuse of the law.
The bench of Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav allowed the petition.
The complainant alleged that Rahul Gandhi, Siddaramaiah, and Shivakumar had conspired to defame the BJP government and made baseless allegations and insinuations.