Gujarat court found Rahul Gandhi guilty of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi by using the phrase “Modi surname.” He was subsequently awarded bail and 30 days to file an appeal.
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, has been asked by the Lok Sabha’s Housing Committee to leave his official residence two days after he was declared ineligible to serve as a member of parliament for Waynad. Rahul Gandhi presently resides in a bungalow on Tughlak Lane 12 in the heart of Delhi. The bungalow must be empty by April 22 if the former MP is to remain there.
Gujarat court found Rahul Gandhi guilty of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi by using the phrase “Modi surname.” He was subsequently awarded bail and 30 days to file an appeal.
On March 23, 2023, the chief judicial magistrate, Surat, H.H. Varma, convicted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for the offence of criminal defamation under Sections 499 and 500 of Indian Penal Code sentencing two years imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs.15000.
Meanwhile, the court suspended his sentence for 30 days and granted him bail to seek an appeal against its verdict in upper courts.
On Friday, the Lok Sabha secretariat issued a notification disqualifying Gandhi as a member of parliament.
Words said by Rahul Gandhi which caused the defamation case
During an electoral rally in Kolar, Karnataka, on April 13, 2019, Rahul Gandhi mentioned names of three people — Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, and controversial cricket administrator Lalit Modi — and questioned why “all these robbers have the same name, Modi.”
“अच्छा, एक छोटा सा सवाल, सबके नाम में, सब चोरों के नाम में, मोदी मोदी मोदी कैसे है? नीरव मोदी, ललित मोदी, नरेंद्र मोदी। और अभी थोड़ा ढूंढेंगे तो और बहुत सारे मोदी निकलेंगे।”
“I have a question. Why do all of them — all of these thieves — have Modi Modi Modi in their names? Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi. And if we search a bit more, many more such Modis will come out.”
Words said by Rahul Gandhi in an electoral rally in Kolar, Karnataka, on April 13, 2019
One who did the case
A former Gujarat minister and BJP MLA, Purnesh Modi, subsequently lodged a complaint against Rahul Gandhi saying his remark had defamed the entire ‘Modi community’.
