Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu

“The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Lucknow trial court’s order summoning leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case over his remarks about VD Savarkar.”

“held that the required sanction had not been obtained in the matter.”

“In such view of the matter, the complaint and orders passed by magistrate stands quashed," the bench said.”