Modi surname comment: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s appeal difficult the order of the Surat periods courtroom declining a keep to his conviction in a legal defamation case over his Modi surname comment will now be heard by a brand new choose of the Gujarat High Court today (April 29).
As per the trigger record revealed on Thursday (April 27) by the High Court, Gandhi’s appeal will likely be heard by Justice Hemant Prachchhak on April 29. Earlier on Wednesday (April 26), when Gandhi’s lawyer PS Champaneri talked about the case earlier than Justice Gita Gopi, she recused herself from the listening to by saying “Not before me.”
The improvement got here a day after Gandhi moved the High Court. A metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s courtroom in Surat on March 23 sentenced the previous Congress president to two years in jail after convicting him beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (legal defamation) in a 2019 case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Gujarat MLA Purnesh Modi.
Following the decision, Gandhi, elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019, was disqualified as a Member of Parliament (MP) beneath the provisions of the Representation of the People Act. Gandhi challenged the order in a periods courtroom in Surat together with an software in search of a keep to the conviction. While granting him bail, the courtroom on April 20 refused to keep the conviction.
Purnesh Modi filed a legal defamation case towards Gandhi over his `How come all thieves have Modi because the frequent surname?’ comment made throughout an election rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019.
A keep to the conviction might pave the best way for Gandhi’s reinstatement as a Member of Parliament (MP).
(With companies inputs)
ALSO READ: Rahul Gandhi vows Rs 10 lakh insurance coverage cowl for fishermen in Udupi
