<div><br />''<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Congress President Rahul Gandhi today pleaded not guilty in a defamation case filed against him by an RSS worker in a Thane court. Mr Gandhi reached the court in Bhiwandi ahead of the hearing amid heavy security. The court had, last month, asked Mr Gandhi to appear before it today to record his plea in the defamation case filed by RSS worker Rajesh Kunte in 2014.</span></font></div>''<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</span></font></div>''<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kunte had filed the case after watching Rahul Gandhi's speech at an election rally in which he had alleged that the RSS was behind the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.</span></font></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div></div>