NEW DELHI: BJP National General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam on Wednesday welcomed the Delhi High Court's decision granting him interim relief in a defamation suit and directing the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and several other defendants to take down social media posts that allegedly linked him to the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case.
Reacting to the court's order, Gautam said Opposition parties were repeatedly invoking the Ankita Bhandari case because they had no substantive issues to raise against the BJP in the state and were only attempting to defame the party and its leaders.
The murder of Ankita Bhandari, a 19-year-old receptionist whose death in 2022 triggered widespread outrage across Uttarakhand, has once again returned to the centre of political and public discourse in the state.