Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Tuesday refused to grant an interim relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case conviction. It stated the final verdict will be delivered only after summer vacation.
Rahul last week filed an appeal in the HC challenging the order of the Surat sessions court which had declined to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remark. A metropolitan magistrate’s court in Surat on March 23 sentenced the former Congress president to two years in jail after convicting him under Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500 (dealing with criminal defamation) in the 2019 case filed by Gujarat BJP MLA Purnesh Modi.
Following the verdict, Rahul, elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019, was disqualified as a Member of Parliament under provisions of the Representation of the People Act. The Surat sessions court on April 20 rejected the Congress leader’s application for a stay on his conviction. Rahul is currently on bail in the case.
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