By Online Desk
The Surat Sessions courtroom on Monday granted bail to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi after he filed an attraction in opposition to the courtroom ruling convicting him in a defamation case over his 2019 comment concerning the surname Modi. It has additionally issued a discover on the plea searching for a keep on his conviction.
The subsequent listening to has been mounted for April 13.
The 52-year-old Congress chief reached Surat by way of a scheduled business flight on Monday afternoon together with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma in Surat had on March 23 convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a 2019 legal defamation case filed in opposition to him over his “Modi surname” remarks.
The case was filed in opposition to Gandhi on a criticism by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi for the Congress chief’s alleged remarks “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?” Gandhi, who had served as an MP from Wayanad in Kerala, made the remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019 throughout the Lok Sabha elections marketing campaign.
The courtroom had held the Congress chief responsible beneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500.
It had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to attraction in the next courtroom.
The former Congress chief was on March 24 disqualified from the Lok Sabha following his conviction.
Following his disqualification, Gandhi wouldn’t be capable to contest elections for eight years except the next courtroom stays his conviction and sentence.
The sentence of two years invited his disqualification from the membership of Parliament beneath provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
The RP Act holds that an MP or a member of legislative Assembly (MLA) convicted for any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not lower than two years shall be disqualified from the date of conviction.
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(With PTI inputs)
The Surat Sessions courtroom on Monday granted bail to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi after he filed an attraction in opposition to the courtroom ruling convicting him in a defamation case over his 2019 comment concerning the surname Modi. It has additionally issued a discover on the plea searching for a keep on his conviction.
The subsequent listening to has been mounted for April 13.
The 52-year-old Congress chief reached Surat by way of a scheduled business flight on Monday afternoon together with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Varma in Surat had on March 23 convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a 2019 legal defamation case filed in opposition to him over his “Modi surname” remarks.
The case was filed in opposition to Gandhi on a criticism by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi for the Congress chief’s alleged remarks “How come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?” Gandhi, who had served as an MP from Wayanad in Kerala, made the remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019 throughout the Lok Sabha elections marketing campaign.
The courtroom had held the Congress chief responsible beneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500.
It had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to attraction in the next courtroom.
The former Congress chief was on March 24 disqualified from the Lok Sabha following his conviction.
Following his disqualification, Gandhi wouldn’t be capable to contest elections for eight years except the next courtroom stays his conviction and sentence.
The sentence of two years invited his disqualification from the membership of Parliament beneath provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
The RP Act holds that an MP or a member of legislative Assembly (MLA) convicted for any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not lower than two years shall be disqualified from the date of conviction.
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Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification has created a stunning wave of Opposition unity: Shashi Tharoor
OPINION: Defamation circumstances in India ought to stop to be legal offence
EDITORIAL | A sentence over a phrase: Surat palms highlight again to Rahul
(With PTI inputs)