New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- The Supreme Court on Friday, August 14, quashed a criminal case and summons issued against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks describing Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as a British collaborator.

Gandhi had said that Vinayak actively collaborated with the British during their colonial rule in India and even received a pension from them. A criminal hate speech complaint was lodged against him over the remarks, and an Uttar Pradesh magistrate had subsequently issued a subpoena to Gandhi.

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the quashing of the summons.

Today, Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu permitted the plea, observing that the cri...