Gujarat HC's 4 stern comments against Rahul Gandhi while rejecting plea on defamation conviction

The Gujarat High Court made some stern observations while rejecting Rahul Gandhi's petition to suspend his conviction in a defamation case.

The Court on July 7 said that the Congress leader is already facing 10 cases across India. Justice Hemant Prachchhak added that the order of the lower court against Gandhi was "just, proper, and legal".

There is no reasonable ground to put a stay on the conviction and it's not injustice to refuse the suspension, the court said.

The High Court's rejection of his plea means that Gandhi will continue to remain disqualified from the Parliament.

A metropolitan magistrate's court in Surat on March 23 sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail after convicting him under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 499 and 500 (criminal defamation) in a 2019 case filed by BJP Gujarat MLA Purnesh Modi.

The MLA had filed a criminal defamation case against Gandhi over his "how come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?" remark made during an election rally at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019.

(With PTI inputs)

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