Gujarat HC extends keep on proceedings towards Rahul Gandhi in defamation case

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Monday prolonged its interim keep on a Surat courtroom’s proceedings towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a felony defamation case filed over his alleged “Modi” surname remarks.

The complainant within the case, state minister Purnesh Modi, had sought a keep on proceedings and likewise quashing of the Surat courtroom order rejecting his software to make Gandhi “personally explain contents of the CDs and/or pen drives and/or such other electronic records” associated to his speech throughout which he had made the alleged remarks.

Justice VM Pancholi posted the listening to to April 8 and mentioned the interim keep granted earlier on the proceedings will proceed until then.

The felony defamation case was filed towards Gandhi over his alleged “Modi” surname remarks made at an election rally at Kolar in Karnataka throughout campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The complainant mentioned that Gandhi’s alleged remarks, “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?” defamed your complete Modi group.

The former Congress president had pleaded not responsible to costs within the case throughout his look earlier than the Surat courtroom final 12 months.

The Surat courtroom had additionally recorded his assertion within the case filed by the BJP chief in April 2019 below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (coping with defamation).

During the trial, the complainant had submitted licensed copies of three CDs which he wished the courtroom to play in presence of Gandhi and allow him to personally clarify its contents, as per the provisions of part 313 of the CrPC (energy to look at accused).

In his tackle on the rally in Kolar on April 13, 2019, Gandhi had allegedly requested, “Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi. How come they all have Modi as the common surname?”