Hearing will be held in the Gujarat High Court today on the petition of former Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case. Earlier, the High Court had adjourned the hearing till May 2 after hearing the arguments of both the sides. In fact, Surat’s sessions court had sentenced Rahul Gandhi to two years in the Modi surname case. Which the former Congress President has challenged in the High Court. After the sentencing, Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership has also gone away. If Gandhi’s conviction is stayed by the court, it would pave the way for his reinstatement as a Lok Sabha MP. Gandhi is currently out on bail in this case.

Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer Abhishek Singhvi had said in the High Court – the matter is not serious

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi had told the Gujarat High Court that the alleged crime for which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment is neither serious nor does it involve moral turpitude. Singhvi requested to stay the conviction of former Congress President in the defamation case of the year 2023 .

Earlier, Rahul Gandhi was shocked by the Surat Sessions Court

Rahul Gandhi filed a revision petition in the Surat Sessions Court challenging the two-year sentence. But he did not get relief from there, after which he has challenged the decision of the Sessions Court in the High Court.

On the petition of BJP MLA Purnesh Modi, the sessions court had sentenced Rahul Gandhi to two years imprisonment

of Surat in the case of 2023 filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Purnesh Modi in Gujarat Metropolitan Magistrate Court 39 The former Congress president was booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on March And 500 ( Convicted under (criminal defamation) and sentenced to two years in jail. Following the verdict, Gandhi was disqualified from membership of Parliament under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act. Rahul Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2023. Rahul GandhiModi surnamePublished Date

Tue, May 2, 2023, 7: 39 AM IST