Congress occasion chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi. File
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After a court in Gujarat’s Surat rejected Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s utility for a keep on his conviction in a legal defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment, occasion spokesperson A.M. Singhvi in a media briefing in Delhi on April 20 stated a “wrong decision has been reaffirmed”.
“We will appeal to Supreme Court and explore all other legal possibilities,” he stated.
“The point is simple, a most unfortunate and unsustainable legal decision of the magistrate has been upheld in an even more erroneous judgement of the sessions court given today. The conviction has been upheld contrary to all basic and elementary principles of law.
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“The judgement will be challenged in near future in the High Court. We are confident, that superior courts with the constitutional power of judicial review, namely High Court and Supreme Court will set right the legal errors found in this judgement,” he stated.
Mr. Gandhi’s lawyer Kirit Panwala additionally stated the classes court’s order will be challenged in Gujarat High Court. He stated the classes court has set May 20 because the date to start listening to his attraction towards the decrease court’s March 23 order.
Dr. Singhvi added that Congress is evident that the “judgements are devoid of valid and sustainable legal reasoning”.
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“The one-line remark of Rahul Gandhi in a two-and-a-half-page long speech has been from inception completely distorted out of recognition to serve narrow ends of motivated complainants.
“The BJP’s speed and zeal to act after the original order depicts that they are motivated by political animosity. Their misleading statements about the OBC community have backfired on them. And the whole community sees the BJP as misutilising and encashing the OBC community for narrow political gains,” he stated.
He additional stated that the voice of Rahul Gandhi is to not be silenced in the way BJP thinks it could actually do. “The BJP has been, in a sense, from Mr. Modi, to the government to the ruling party, is captured in a fear psychosis.”
On April 3, Mr. Gandhi’s lawyer filed two purposes alongside together with his major attraction towards the decrease court’s order sentencing him to 2 years in jail, one for bail and one other for keep on conviction pending his attraction.
Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda stated it’s a “politically motivated” case. “We have full faith in the judiciary,” he added.
Earlier, arguing for Mr. Gandhi’s plea for a keep on his conviction, his lawyer additionally informed the court that the trial was “not fair” and there was no want for max punishment in the case.
(With PTI inputs)
