Modi Surname Case: SC To Hear Rahul Gandhi’s Plea Against Gujarat HC Order

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to listen to on July 21 a plea filed by former Congress President Rahul Gandhi towards the Gujarat High Court’s verdict denying to place a keep on his conviction within the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud directed to record the matter on Friday after senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, showing for Rahul Gandhi, sought pressing itemizing of the matter. 

Singhvi requested the highest court docket to record the plea both on Friday (July 21) or Monday (July 24). The court docket has agreed to record the matter for listening to this Friday. “List this Friday,” mentioned CJI Chandrachud. On July 15, the Congress chief approached the Supreme Court towards the Gujarat High Court’s order to remain his conviction and two-year jail time period in a legal defamation case, which value the Congress chief his Lok Sabha membership. 

A bench of Justice Hemant Prachchhak of the excessive court docket had noticed that granting a keep on his conviction could be an exception, and never a rule.

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Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a Member of Parliament in March after a Surat court docket convicted him and sentenced him to 2 years in jail for his “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname” comment made throughout an election rally in Karnataka in April 2019.

In anticipation, Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA and the complainant within the defamation case towards Gandhi, had submitted a caveat within the Supreme Court requesting for an opportunity to current his case if the Congress chief challenges the excessive court docket verdict.

A caveat serves as a discover submitted to an appellate court docket by a litigant who needs to be heard in case any orders are issued relating to an opponent’s enchantment that challenges the choice or judgment made by the decrease court docket.

Rahul Gandhi’s 2019 comment was interpreted as an try to attract an implicit connection between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi. In March, the classes court docket in Surat had dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s plea in search of suspension of his conviction by the Justice of the Peace court docket, stating that his disqualification won’t end in an irreversible loss to him. 

According to authorized consultants, if the highest court docket stays Rahul Gandhi’s conviction, it could be ample to revive his Lok Sabha membership. The Congress chief was disqualified underneath a rule that bars convicted MPs from holding Lok Sabha membership.