Rahul Gandhi Defamation Case: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was convicted and awarded two years jail time period by a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat in a 2019 defamaiton case on Thursday. However, quickly after the pronunciation of the sentence, the court docket granted him bail and his two-year sentence was suspended for 30 days to enchantment towards the quantum of punishment.
If Rahul Gandhi goes to jail, which is unlikely very quickly as he will take the authorized battle to the upper courts, his title can be included within the checklist of Congress leaders who have been jailed for numerous causes. When they went to jail, it created large political outrage within the nation.
Take a look at the checklist of jailed Congress leaders:
Indira Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was jailed by the Parliament on December 19, 1978. She was expelled from the Parliament for the complete session for breaching parliamentary privilege.
She was put in ward quantity 19 in Tihar jail, Delhi. She stayed round a week in jail. Political observers took it as punishing her by the Morarji Desai authorities for harassing the opposition leaders throughout her Emergency rule (1975-77) within the nation.
Sukhram: In November 2011, senior Congress chief and former Telecom Minister Sukhram was awarded 5 years imprisonment by a Delhi Court for taking Rs 30 lakhs as bribe to give a profitable contract to a personal agency in 1996. Before this in 2002, he was sentenced to a 3-year jail time period below the Prevention of Corruption Act in a separate case relating to tools provide. After court docket judgment, he was expelled from the get together. He was a seven-time MLA and three-time MP.
P Chidambaram: Former Home Minister and as soon as quantity 2 Congress chief, P Chidambaram stayed 106-day in jail earlier than getting bail from the Supreme Court in a corruption case associated to the INX Media money-laundering case.
Navjot Singh Sidhu: Former Punjab Congress president and one in every of prime faces for the get together within the state, Navjot Singh Sidhu has been within the Patiala jail in reference to 1988 street rage incident case. He was convicted by the Supreme Court for voluntarily inflicting damage (Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code). Sidhu acquired one-year rigorous imprisonment in May 2022.
Suresh Kalmadi: Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi was a celebrated persona till corruption circumstances surfaced towards him. He was the chairman of the organising committee for the controversial 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Pune MP was charged with felony conspiracy, forgery, dishonest and different offences. Kalmadi was arrested on April 25, 2011 and was launched on bail 9 months later.
Kamal Nath: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress chief Kamal Nath was additionally jailed not for one thing doing felony exercise however for the sake of friendship with Indira Gandhi’s son Sanjay Gandhi. There is a story within the political hall that to give a firm and guarantee Sanjay Gandhi’s security, he willingly fought a decide in order that he would ship him jail with his buddy Sanjay. Subsequently, he was put in Tihar jail for 7 days on contempt expenses in 1979.
