New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- The Supreme Court on Friday quashed a criminal defamation complaint and the summons issued against Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi by a Lucknow Magistrate court over his alleged remarks against freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during the 2022 Bharat Jodo Yatra.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu quashed the complaint and the orders passed by the Magistrate after taking note of the Uttar Pradesh government's failure to disclose the requisite sanction in the case.

The bench said that the Additional Solicitor General and the complainant's counsel, based on the affidavit filed by the Uttar Pradesh government, submitted that there was no disclosure of the sanction.

"In such ...