Jaipur, Oct 11: A complaint was Thursday filed in a lower court in Jaipur against Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra for his alleged "mango people in banana republic" comment on his Facebook page recently, a lawyer said.
The complaint was filed by lawyer A.C. Upadhyay in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S.K. Ojha.
Upadhyay said: "I approached the court as the remarks of Vadra are defamatory and against the Constitution of India, the court and its people. I had filed a complaint which the court has accepted."
The complaint was filed under sections 124A (sedition), 153B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 500 and 501 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code.
"The court will take up the matter for hearing Oct 18," said the officer.
Vadra reportedly wrote a comment on his Facebook page Monday that read: "Mango people in banana republic...."
The comment had come two days after activist Arvind Kejriwal of India Against Corruption (IAC) alleged that the son-in-law of the country's ruling party chief Sonia Gandhi had indulged in quid pro quo real-estate deals with a realty major.
