Rahul Gandhi made the alleged remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Surat: A court docket in Surat in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in jail in a 2019 felony defamation case filed in opposition to him over his Modi surname remarks.
The court docket of Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace HH Varma, which held Gandhi responsible below Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500, additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to permit him to attraction in the next court docket, the Congress chief’s lawyer Babu Mangukiya mentioned.
As per the Illustration of the Individuals Act, an individual sentenced to imprisonment of two years or extra shall be disqualified “from the date of such conviction” and stay disqualified for an additional six years after serving time.
Gandhi was current within the court docket when the decision was pronounced.
The case was filed in opposition to Gandhi for his alleged how come all of the thieves have Modi because the widespread surname? remarks on a grievance lodged by BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Modi.
The Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad made the remarks whereas addressing a rally at Kolar in Karnataka forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Reacting to the judgment, complainant and Surat West Bharatiya Janata Occasion MLA Purnesh Modi mentioned he welcomed the court docket’s verdict.
The ultimate arguments resumed within the case final month after the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom vacated its keep on proceedings imposed on plea by the complainant demanding Gandhi’s private look.
Gandhi had final appeared earlier than the Surat court docket within the case in October 2021 to document his assertion. Earlier than that, the Congress MP had appeared within the court docket to plead not responsible to prices levelled in opposition to him.
Earlier within the day, state Congress leaders, together with GPCC president Jagdish Thakor, legislature get together chief Amit Chavda, senior chief Arjun Modhwadia, AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma, have been at Surat airport to obtain Gandhi.
An enormous variety of get together functionaries had assembled at varied spots within the metropolis as a present of energy and help for Gandhi, with posters extolling him as ‘Sher-e-Hindustan’ (lion of Hindustan) and placards declaring that the “Congress is not going to bow earlier than the dictatorship of the BJP” on show.
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