Subramaniam Swamy opposes Rahul Gandhi’s plea searching for NOC for latest passport
On Wednesday, May 24, former Rajya Sabha MP and BJP chief Subramaniam Swamy opposed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea filed at Rouse Avenue court docket docket searching for the issuance of an odd passport ahead of his US go to.
This comes after the Gandhi scion filed a plea sooner than the court docket docket searching for issuance of a no-objection certificates (NOC) to accumulate a latest odd passport. It is pertinent to note that Rahul Gandhi wanted to surrender his diplomatic passport following his disqualification as Wayanad MP after he was convicted inside the ‘Modi’ surname-related defamation case.
Gandhi’s lawyer knowledgeable Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta that there are not any pending felony circumstances in the direction of him and thus he might be issued a no-objection certificates.
However, the Court dominated that Swamy has the becoming to reply Gandhi’s petition. Subsequently, the case was scheduled for a listening to on May 26.
According to Swamy, allowing Gandhi to journey abroad may jeopardize the investigation into the National Herald case.
Reportedly, Rahul Gandhi has a go to consider to the United States, the place he would take care of his first-ever public rally inside the US on June 4 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The public rally will conclude his week-long tour of the United States, which contains a speech at Stanford University.
Notably, Swamy in his private criticism filed in 2012, had accused Sonia and Rahul Gandhi along with their aides— Oscar Fernandez, Motilal Vohra, and Sam Pitroda of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by paying merely Rs 50 lakh, by which Young India (YI) had obtained the becoming to recuperate Rs 90.25 crore that the Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) owed to the Congress get collectively. The mother-son duo was granted bail in December 2015.
Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in ‘Modi surname’ defamation case
Rahul Gandhi was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in jail by the court docket docket of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Surat on March 23 this 12 months for his defamatory suggestions in the direction of people with Modi surname in a speech in 2019.
A felony defamation case was filed by Gujarat BJP chief Purnesh Modi after Rahul Gandhi in an election rally had requested why all people with the Modi surname is a thief, mentioning Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, and Narendra Modi. Gandhi was convicted under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (felony defamation). A day after the conviction, the chief was disqualified from Lok Sabha.
