MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut have been summoned by a local magistrate’s court over alleged defamatory comments published by the party publication “Saamana” against Rahul Shewale, a leader of the opposing Sena faction.The summons was issued on Monday in response to a complaint made by Mr. Shewale, an MP from the Mumbai South-Central constituency. Metropolitan Magistrate (Sewree court) SB Kale.Former Maharashtra chief minister Mr. Thackeray and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut have been ordered to appear in court on July 14. Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut have been summoned by a local magistrate’s court over alleged defamatory comments published by the party publication “Saamana” against Rahul Shewale, a leader of the opposing Sena faction.The summons was issued on Monday in response to a complaint made by Mr. Shewale, an MP from the Mumbai South-Central constituency. Metropolitan Magistrate (Sewree court) SB Kale.Former Maharashtra chief minister Mr. Thackeray and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut have been ordered to appear in court on July 14. Rahul Shewale objected to the stories with the headline “Rahul Shewale has hotel, real estate business in Karachi” that were published on December 29, 2022, in the case he filed through attorney Chitra Salunke.The complaint stated that “the complainant strongly refuted all the allegations made in the said articles and categorically stated that this is merely a feeble attempt to damage the complainant’s reputation and political career by levelling false accusations against him to malign his image before the public at large.It went on to say that the pieces were a “fabricated story,” “devoid of any merits,” and a prime example of “vendetta journalism.”