New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s advocate Pradeep Chandra on Friday requested Ranchi’s MP-MLA court docket for 15 days time to seem bodily. A listening to was held within the MP-MLA court docket of Ranchi on Friday within the case associated to the alleged touch upon Modi surname. The order for Rahul Gandhi to seem bodily by the MP-MLA court docket has been challenged within the High Court. An individual named Pradeep Modi, a resident of Ranchi, had filed a defamation case in opposition to Rahul Gandhi for commenting on the Modi surname. Ranchi MP-MLA court docket is listening to the matter. Rahul Gandhi had sought exemption from bodily examination.
MP/MLA court docket in Ranchi had rejected Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea for exemption from private look in ‘Modi surname case’ in early May. Meanwhile, the Gujarat High Court had additionally reserved its order on Rahul Gandhi’s plea in search of a keep on his conviction within the defamation case. Justice Hemant Prachchhak will pronounce the decision after trip. The court docket refused to grant any interim reduction to Rahul Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi had moved the Gujarat High Court on April 25 difficult the Surat classes court docket order which declined to remain his conviction within the felony defamation case. During the listening to on April 29, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, showing for Rahul Gandhi, had sought time to supply sure paperwork on file after which the court docket adjourned the listening to to May 2.
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The Surat classes court docket had on April 20 rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea in search of a keep on his conviction within the 2019 felony defamation case. In his judgement, Additional classes decide Robin P Mogera had cited Gandhi’s stature as an MP and former chief of the nation’s second-largest political celebration and stated he ought to have been extra cautious. He cited prima facie proof and observations of the trial court docket and stated it transpires that Gandhi made sure derogatory remarks in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi other than evaluating folks with the identical surname with thieves.
Mogera stated the surname of the complainant within the case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Purnesh Modi, can also be Modi. “…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 stated. Mogera cited the disqualification standards underneath the Representation of the People Act and added that removing or disqualification as MP couldn’t be termed irreversible or irreparable loss or injury to Gandhi.
Following his conviction by a decrease court docket within the felony defamation case, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP. He had been elected to Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala. The decrease court docket sentenced the Congress chief to 2 years in jail on March 23 underneath 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, stated, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” Following the session’s court docket verdict, Congress had stated it’ll transfer the Gujarat High Court.
