Congress leader Rahul Gandhi`s plea seeking transfer of a defamation suit filed against him by an RSS worker to another court has been rejected by the Thane court. Principal District Judge AJ Mantri rejected Gandhi`s plea in December 2021. However, the order was uploaded only on June 14.

RSS activist Vivek Champanerkar, in a 2019 civil defamation case, sought a token compensation of Rs 1 from Gandhi, accusing him of defaming the RSS by linking it to the 2017 murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh.