The Gujarat High Court mentioned on Saturday that it’ll resume hearings on Rahul Gandhi’s defamation case on May 2.
Gujarat HC to proceed listening to Rahul Gandhi’s plea in defamation case on May 2
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 29, 2023
The court docket earlier started listening to on the plea filed by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in search of a keep on his conviction within the ‘Modi surname’ defamation case. The plea of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi challenged the order of the Surat periods court docket refusing a keep to his conviction. It was heard by a brand new decide of the Gujarat High Court on Saturday, information company PTI reported. A keep to the conviction may pave the way in which for Rahul Gandhi’s reinstatement as a Member of Parliament.
Earlier on April 26, Justice Gita Gopi of Gujarat High Court recused herself from listening to the legal revision utility of the Congress chief saying “not earlier than me,” a day after Rahul Gandhi moved the High Court difficult the periods court docket order.
A metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s court docket in Surat on March 23 sentenced the previous Congress president to 2 years in jail after convicting him underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (legal defamation) in a 2019 case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Gujarat MLA Purnesh Modi.
Following the decision, Rahul Gandhi, elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019, was disqualified as a Member of Parliament (MP) underneath the provisions of the Representation of the People Act.
He then challenged the order in a periods court docket in Surat together with a plea in search of a keep to his conviction. However, whereas granting him bail, the court docket on April 20 refused to remain the conviction.
Notably, Purnesh Modi had filed a legal defamation case towards Rahul Gandhi over his comment throughout an election rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, the place he mentioned, “How come all thieves have Modi because the frequent surname?”
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