Surat: A periods courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat metropolis on Monday granted bail to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi after he filed an attraction towards his conviction in a prison defamation case over his 2019 “Modi surname” comment by which he has been sentenced to 2 years in jail, a lawyer mentioned. The courtroom of Additional Sessions Judge R P Mogera mentioned it should hear his plea for suspension of conviction on April 13 after issuing a discover to complainant Purnesh Modi, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and former Gujarat cupboard minister. The periods courtroom requested the respondent (Purnesh Modi) to file his reply by April 10.
“We had filed an application for Rahul Gandhi’s bail and suspension of sentence along with his appeal against conviction by a lower court. The (sessions) court heard the matter and granted him bail. The court kept the matter for hearing on the stay of his conviction for April 13,” a member of his authorized staff informed reporters. Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in Surat earlier within the day, won’t be required to look within the courtroom throughout the listening to of the case, he mentioned.
Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and different celebration leaders have been current within the courtroom when the matter got here up for listening to at round 3 pm. Rahul Gandhi reached the periods courtroom premises in a luxurious bus together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and different senior leaders. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and several other different celebration leaders have been current in Surat.
The case was filed towards Rahul Gandhi on a criticism by Purnesh Modi for the 52-year-old Congress chief’s comment, “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?” The disqualified MP made the touch upon “Modi surname” whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, throughout campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress chief, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019, was convicted on March 23 by the courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma and sentenced to 2 years in jail. The Justice of the Peace’s courtroom had granted him bail the identical day and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to attraction in the next courtroom. A day after his conviction and sentence, he was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha.
