Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Punesh Modi has lodged a warning to the Supreme Court to hear Rahul Gandhi when he launches a plea challenging the High Court’s judgment.
Release Dates – Wednesday 23rd at 2:46pm – July 12th
New Delhi: BJP MP Purnesh Modi, the plaintiff in the defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, has lodged a warning to the Supreme Court to challenge the High Court’s judgment if the Congress leader enters a plea , refused to uphold the conviction for remarks made by Modi’s surname, and he will be heard. case.
On July 7, a Gujarat High Court judge rejected Gandhi’s request to stay his conviction in the defamation case.
According to the Supreme Court website, Purnesh Modi filed a warning to the Supreme Court through his lawyer PS Sudheer on the same day.
A litigant seeking a hearing opportunity can file a caution with the appeals court if an opponent’s appeal challenging the lower court’s order or judgment passes any order.
Gandhi, 53, suffered a setback when High Court judge Hemant Prachhak dismissed his appeal, saying “political purity is now required”.
It also states that representatives of the people should be “persons with clear prior convictions” and that the stay of conviction is not a rule but an exception that is applied only in rare cases and for which there is no reasonable reason to stay convictions.
A stay of Gandhi’s conviction would pave the way for his reinstatement as a member of the Lok Sabha.
Congress later said it would challenge the decision in the Supreme Court, claiming the government was looking for “newer technology” to silence his disturbing voice of truth-telling.
Purnesh Modi, former minister of the Gujarat state government, filed a criminal defamation suit against Gandhi in 2019 for “Why do all the thieves have Modi as a common surname?” Karnataka, April 13, 2019 Speech at an election rally in Boncorral.
On March 23 this year, the District Court of Surat City sentenced the former Congress president to two years in prison under Sections 499 and 500 (criminal defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Following the verdict, Gandhi, who was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha in 2019 from Wayanad, Kerala, was disqualified under the provisions of the People’s Representation Act.
Gandhi then challenged the order in a court in Surat and filed an application for a stay of conviction. He knocked on the door of the High Court on April 20 after the court refused to uphold the conviction while granting him bail.
