New Delhi: Gujarat High Court will pronounce the judgement on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea looking for a keep on his conviction within the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case on July 7. Meanwhile, on July 4, Jharkhand High Court directed that no coercive motion be taken in opposition to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi within the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case. The subsequent listening to shall be on August 16. Earlier in May this 12 months, Gujarat HC reserved its order on Rahul Gandhi’s plea looking for a keep on his conviction within the 2019 ‘Modi surname’ defamation case.
The courtroom refused to grant any interim aid to Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi had moved the Gujarat High Court on April 25 difficult the Surat periods courtroom order which declined to remain his conviction within the prison defamation case.
During the listening to on April 29, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, showing for Rahul Gandhi, had sought time to provide sure paperwork on file after which the courtroom adjourned the listening to to May 2.
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The Surat periods courtroom had on April 20 rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea looking for a keep on his conviction within the 2019 prison defamation case.
In his judgement, Additional periods choose Robin P Mogera had cited Gandhi’s stature as an MP and former chief of the nation’s second-largest political social gathering and mentioned he ought to have been extra cautious.
He cited prima facie proof and observations of the trial courtroom and mentioned it transpires that Gandhi made sure derogatory remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi aside from evaluating individuals with the identical surname with thieves.
Mogera mentioned the surname of the complainant within the case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Purnesh Modi, can be Modi.Â
“…the complainant is [also an] ex-minister and involved in public life and such defamatory remarks would have certainly harmed his reputation and caused him pain and agony in society,” he mentioned.
Mogera cited the disqualification standards below the Representation of the People Act and added that elimination or disqualification as MP couldn’t be termed irreversible or irreparable loss or harm to Gandhi.
Following his conviction by a decrease courtroom within the prison defamation case, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP. He had been elected to Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala.
The decrease courtroom sentenced the Congress chief to 2 years in jail on March 23 below sections 499 and 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a case filed by Purnesh Modi.
At a rally in Karnataka’s Kolar in April 2019, Rahul Gandhi, in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, mentioned, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?”.
Following the session’s courtroom verdict, Congress had mentioned it’ll transfer the Gujarat High Court.Â
