BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh CM
Shivraj Singh Chouhan's son
Kartikey Chouhan
submitted before a court here on Saturday that Congress chief
Rahul Gandhi deliberately linked him with the
Panama Papers leak.
Kartikey recorded his statement before Special Judge (for cases against MPs and MLAs) Suresh Singh in the
defamation case
filed by him against Rahul Gandhi.
The court fixed December 17 as the date for submission of evidence in support of the complaint, Kartikey's lawyer Shrey Raj Saxena said.
Rahul Gandhi made the statement deliberately to defame Kartikey and his father who is the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh since 2005, Saxena quoted the chief minister's son as telling the court.
The Congress chief clarified later that he named Kartikey out of confusion, but did not tender an apology, the lawyer told the court.
At a Congress rally at Jhabua in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the Gandhi scion had alleged that Kartikey's name figured in the Panama Papers leak, a global investigation into offshore money-laundering entities.
However, the next day the Congress chief said he named Kartikey Chouhan out of "confusion".
On October 30, Kartikey filed a defamation case under sections 499 and 500 of the IPC, against Rahul Gandhi.