Pune, June 18 -- Satyaki Savarkar, the grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, has told a Pune court that though his grand uncle VD Savarkar had filed 10 clemency petitions before the British government, their tone was not one of "humility" and they did not include words expressing loyalty to the British government. Instead, they merely sought a reduction in sentence, Satyaki Savarkar told the court, as per his deposition statement made available on Tuesday. The admissions were made on Monday during Satyaki Savarkar's cross-examination by advocate Milind Pawar, counsel for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a criminal defamation case against Gandhi over his remarks in London in March 2023. According to Satyaki's complaint, filed after Gandhi's London speech, he defamed VD Savarkar by falsely attributing to his writings an incident of assaulting a Muslim youth, which he said did not exist....