Gandhi appeared before the court amid tight security, accompanied by party workers and supporters. (@INCIndia X/ANI Photo)

A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur Monday acquitted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case over alleged remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018, ruling that the BJP leader who filed the complaint was not an aggrieved person and that the remarks were not defamatory.

Gandhi appeared before the court amid tight security, accompanied by party workers and supporters.

“The court has acquitted Rahul Gandhi in the case,” Gandhi’s lawyer, Kashi Prasad Shukla, confirmed.

After the court pronounced the judgment, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha left.

The complainant, Vijay Mishra, is a former vice-president of the BJP’s Sultanpur unit .

“The court considered three questions: first, whether the CD containing the voice recording filed by the complainant was genuine; second, whether the complainant was an aggrieved person; and third, whether the impugned…