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Karnataka High Court Pauses Defamation Trial Against Deputy CM and Congress State Unit

Interim relief was granted in a BJP defamation suit over the 2023 ‘corruption rate card’ ads with the next hearing scheduled for July 29

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Overview

  • The Karnataka High Court stayed trial court proceedings against Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in a BJP criminal defamation case.
  • Justice S.R. Krishna Kumar presided over the bench that granted interim relief and issued notice to the BJP state unit.
  • The defamation suit targets Congress’s May 2023 full-page ‘corruption rate card’ advertisements alleging that the BJP government charged fixed commissions and misappropriated ₹1.5 lakh crore.
  • Rahul Gandhi received similar interim protection in January when the High Court paused trial proceedings against him in the same case.
  • The BJP contended that the Congress’s use of the “trouble engine sarkaar” parody and rate-card claims was intended to undermine its electoral image during the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections.