Lucknow, Oct. 27 -- The Special MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on Monday acquitted Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP from Rae Bareli, in an eight-year-old defamation case linked to remarks against the then BJP national president Amit Shah, who is now the Union home minister. In a 49-page judgment, the court held that the complainant Vijay Mishra, a BJP leader, is neither the person aggrieved under Section 199 of the Criminal Procedure Code nor member of a definite identifiable class and the alleged statement does not cross the higher threshold required for defamation in political discourse. Special Judge (MP-MLA court) Shubham Verma pronounced the judgment in the presence of Rahul Gandhi, who had reached Sultanpur from Lucknow in the morning to attend the proceedings. The special MP-MLA court held that the charges were not proved. Holding that the complaint appears concocted, unnatural, uncorroborated and motivated for political purpose to gain popularity as the complainant himself admitted that the media takes his interview, which runs nationwide, the court acquitted Rahul Gandhi. P5...