India, Oct. 29 -- Complainant Satyaki Savarkar on Wednesday denied that his defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was intended to gain publicity, telling a Pune court that he had approached it because his grandfather, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, had been defamed.

The case concerns Gandhi's alleged remarks about the Hindutva ideologue. During cross-examination before judicial magistrate first class Amol Shriram Shinde, Satyaki faced questions about Savarkar's ideology, his historical relationship with Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Kapoor Commission report and the complainant's media presence.

Questioned by Gandhi's advocate, Milind D Pawar, Satyaki disagreed with the suggestion that Savarkar and Ambedkar lacked ideological comm...