Bengaluru, June 29 -- In a ruling with potential implications for future criminal defamation cases involving the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a special court here has held that individual RSS members can maintain defamation proceedings even though the organisation is not registered, ruling that the absence of formal registration or documentary proof of membership cannot, by itself, defeat such complaints at the threshold.
The ruling came while the XLII Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate took cognisance of a private complaint filed by an RSS swayamsevak against Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge and Congress leader Mohammad Haris Nalapad over their alleged remarks against the RSS.
The court issued summons to the two under Secti...