Rahul to file attraction in opposition to defamation case verdict
3 min readExpress News Service
AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will file an attraction within the Surat periods court docket on Monday in opposition to his conviction in a prison defamation case. The plea is prone to come up for listening to on Monday, when the previous Congress president will even be current within the court docket.
On March 23, the court docket of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a 2019 prison defamation case filed in opposition to him over his remarks on Modi surname. It had held 52-year-old responsible underneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500. The court docket had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to attraction in the next court docket. On March 24, Rahul was disqualified from the Lok Sabha.
According to sources, the 168-page Surat court docket judgment has been translated by specialists, and the petition is prepared for submitting. Rahul Gandhi will arrive on the periods court docket to submit the attraction at 3 pm, his legal professional Kirit Panwala mentioned. He will probably be accompanied by a crew of professional attorneys and Congress leaders.
The defamation go well with in opposition to Rahul Gandhi was filed by Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA and former minister in Gujarat, for his remark: “How come all thieves have the common Modi surname?” which he had made whereas campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.
According to the Congress, he was focusing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for having the identical surname as fugitive businessman Nirav Modi and former IPL chief Lalit Modi. Reacting to the information, BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla mentioned: “This is a welcome step. Though delayed, the Congress has shown faith in the judicial system.”
AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will file an attraction within the Surat periods court docket on Monday in opposition to his conviction in a prison defamation case. The plea is prone to come up for listening to on Monday, when the previous Congress president will even be current within the court docket.
On March 23, the court docket of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a 2019 prison defamation case filed in opposition to him over his remarks on Modi surname. It had held 52-year-old responsible underneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500. The court docket had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to attraction in the next court docket. On March 24, Rahul was disqualified from the Lok Sabha.
According to sources, the 168-page Surat court docket judgment has been translated by specialists, and the petition is prepared for submitting. Rahul Gandhi will arrive on the periods court docket to submit the attraction at 3 pm, his legal professional Kirit Panwala mentioned. He will probably be accompanied by a crew of professional attorneys and Congress leaders. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The defamation go well with in opposition to Rahul Gandhi was filed by Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA and former minister in Gujarat, for his remark: “How come all thieves have the common Modi surname?” which he had made whereas campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.
According to the Congress, he was focusing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for having the identical surname as fugitive businessman Nirav Modi and former IPL chief Lalit Modi. Reacting to the information, BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla mentioned: “This is a welcome step. Though delayed, the Congress has shown faith in the judicial system.”
