Gujarat courtroom to ship verdict in 2019 defamation case towards Rahul Gandhi

By PTI

SURAT: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi reached Surat in Gujarat on Thursday, the place a courtroom will ship its verdict in a 2019 prison defamation case filed towards him over his “Modi surname” remarks.

Senior state Congress leaders, together with GPCC president Jagdish Thakor, legislature social gathering chief Amit Chavda, senior chief Arjun Modhwadia and AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma, have been at Surat airport to obtain Gandhi.

An enormous variety of social gathering functionaries assembled at numerous spots within the metropolis as a present of power and help for Gandhi, with posters extolling him as ‘Sher-e-Hindustan’ (lion of Hindustan) and placards declaring that the “Congress will not bow before the dictatorship of the BJP” on show.

The case was filed towards Gandhi for his alleged “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” remarks on a criticism lodged by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi.

The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the alleged remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate HH Varma had final week concluded listening to closing arguments from each side and set March 23 to pronounce its judgment within the four-year-old defamation case, Gandhi’s lawyer Kirit Panwala had mentioned.

“Truth is put to test and is harassed, but truth alone prevails. Several false cases have been filed against Gandhi, but he will emerge from all these. We will get justice,” mentioned senior Congress chief and MLA Arjun Modhwadia on Thursday.

Gandhi had final appeared earlier than the Surat courtroom within the case, filed below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (coping with defamation), in October 2021 to file his assertion.

In his criticism, BJP MLA Purnesh Modi alleged that Gandhi, whereas addressing the ballot rally in 2019, defamed the complete Modi neighborhood by purportedly saying, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?”

Purnesh Modi was a minister within the first tenure of the Bhupendra Patel authorities. The ruling social gathering legislator was re-elected from the Surat West Assembly seat within the December elections.

The closing arguments resumed within the case final month after the Gujarat High Court vacated its keep on proceedings imposed on plea by the complainant demanding Gandhi’s private look.

The lawyer for the complainant argued that CDs and pen drive containing the supplies on Gandhi’s Kolar speech established the Congress MP certainly made the Modi surname remarks, and his utterances defamed the neighborhood.

Gandhi’s lawyer has argued the courtroom proceedings have been “flawed” from the start because the process laid down below part 202 of the CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) was not adopted. The CrPC part offers with the postponement of situation of course of.

The lawyer additionally argued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and never MLA Purnesh Modi, ought to have been the complainant within the case as a result of the PM was the primary goal of Gandhi’s speech.

SURAT: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi reached Surat in Gujarat on Thursday, the place a courtroom will ship its verdict in a 2019 prison defamation case filed towards him over his “Modi surname” remarks.

Senior state Congress leaders, together with GPCC president Jagdish Thakor, legislature social gathering chief Amit Chavda, senior chief Arjun Modhwadia and AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma, have been at Surat airport to obtain Gandhi.

An enormous variety of social gathering functionaries assembled at numerous spots within the metropolis as a present of power and help for Gandhi, with posters extolling him as ‘Sher-e-Hindustan’ (lion of Hindustan) and placards declaring that the “Congress will not bow before the dictatorship of the BJP” on show.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The case was filed towards Gandhi for his alleged “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” remarks on a criticism lodged by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi.

The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the alleged remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The courtroom of Chief Judicial Magistrate HH Varma had final week concluded listening to closing arguments from each side and set March 23 to pronounce its judgment within the four-year-old defamation case, Gandhi’s lawyer Kirit Panwala had mentioned.

“Truth is put to test and is harassed, but truth alone prevails. Several false cases have been filed against Gandhi, but he will emerge from all these. We will get justice,” mentioned senior Congress chief and MLA Arjun Modhwadia on Thursday.

Gandhi had final appeared earlier than the Surat courtroom within the case, filed below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (coping with defamation), in October 2021 to file his assertion.

In his criticism, BJP MLA Purnesh Modi alleged that Gandhi, whereas addressing the ballot rally in 2019, defamed the complete Modi neighborhood by purportedly saying, “How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?”

Purnesh Modi was a minister within the first tenure of the Bhupendra Patel authorities. The ruling social gathering legislator was re-elected from the Surat West Assembly seat within the December elections.

The closing arguments resumed within the case final month after the Gujarat High Court vacated its keep on proceedings imposed on plea by the complainant demanding Gandhi’s private look.

The lawyer for the complainant argued that CDs and pen drive containing the supplies on Gandhi’s Kolar speech established the Congress MP certainly made the Modi surname remarks, and his utterances defamed the neighborhood.

Gandhi’s lawyer has argued the courtroom proceedings have been “flawed” from the start because the process laid down below part 202 of the CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) was not adopted. The CrPC part offers with the postponement of situation of course of.

The lawyer additionally argued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and never MLA Purnesh Modi, ought to have been the complainant within the case as a result of the PM was the primary goal of Gandhi’s speech.