 "Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference on 17 May, 2019")
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury will face trial after pleading not guilty on Thursday in a defamation case filed against them by an RSS worker.
Amid heavy security, Gandhi and Yechury appeared before the Mazgaon-Sewree metropolitan magistrate's court following summons issued to them in February this year. The court read out the complaint to the two leaders and asked if they were pleading guilty or not to the charges levelled against them.
Gandhi and Yechury, who pleaded not guilty, will now face trial during which the court would record their statements and that of the complainant
