Goa, Aug. 4 -- The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks about the Indian Army during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in December 2022, observing that "a true Indian will not say all this," even as it stayed criminal defamation proceedings against him.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih questioned Gandhi's choice of words and the platform he used to make such claims, asking his lawyer, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, "Were you there? How did you get to know that 2,000 square kilometres has been captured?"

Gandhi had alleged that the Chinese Army had "captured 2,000 sq km of Indian territory," "killed 20 Indian soldiers," and "thrashed our jawans in Arunachal Pradesh" - st...