{"id":54199,"date":"2023-04-10T04:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T19:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/09\/indias-rahul-gandhi-fights-excessive-defamation-case"},"modified":"2023-04-10T04:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T19:37:52","slug":"indias-rahul-gandhi-fights-excessive-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54199","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Rahul Gandhi fights \u2018excessive\u2019 defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP denies involvement in case but some point to Gandhi\u2019s queries over accused industrialist linked to Narendra Modi \u2013 and the wider action against political rivals<\/p>\n<p>For a court system with a backlog of 40m cases, there was one lawsuit that recently appeared to move through India\u2019s courtrooms unusually fast.<\/p>\n<p>The case related to India\u2019s most well-known main opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, and comments that he had made at a campaign rally during the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/09\/indias-rahul-gandhi-fights-excessive-defamation-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP denies involvement in case but some point to Gandhi\u2019s queries over accused industrialist linked to Narendra Modi \u2013 and the wider action against political rivalsFor a court system with a backlog of 40m cases, there was one lawsuit that recently appe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,1712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54199\/revisions\/54200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}