NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Friday dismissed a PIL difficult the restoration of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership and imposed a price of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner.
A bench headed by Justice BR Gavai mentioned the petition is an abuse of the method of regulation as no basic proper of the petitioner has been violated.
The highest courtroom was listening to a plea filed by advocate Ashok Pandey difficult the restoration of Gandhi’s membership.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat had restored Gandhi’s membership after the Supreme Court docket on August 4 stayed his conviction in a case associated to a comment on the ‘Modi’ surname.
The Congress chief, who was disqualified from the decrease home in March 2023, was reinstated as Wayanad MP.
BJP chief Purnesh Modi had filed a prison defamation case towards Gandhi in 2019 over his “How come all thieves have Modi because the frequent surname?” comment made throughout an election rally in Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Friday dismissed a PIL difficult the restoration of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha membership and imposed a price of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner.
A bench headed by Justice BR Gavai mentioned the petition is an abuse of the method of regulation as no basic proper of the petitioner has been violated.
The highest courtroom was listening to a plea filed by advocate Ashok Pandey difficult the restoration of Gandhi’s membership.googletag.cmd.push(operate() {googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
The Lok Sabha Secretariat had restored Gandhi’s membership after the Supreme Court docket on August 4 stayed his conviction in a case associated to a comment on the ‘Modi’ surname.
The Congress chief, who was disqualified from the decrease home in March 2023, was reinstated as Wayanad MP.
BJP chief Purnesh Modi had filed a prison defamation case towards Gandhi in 2019 over his “How come all thieves have Modi because the frequent surname?” comment made throughout an election rally in Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019. Observe The New Indian Specific channel on WhatsApp