New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has got interim relief from the Patna High Court in the defamation case of 'Sare Modi Chor Hai'. The High Court has put a stay on the ongoing judicial process in the MP MLA Court of Patna. Now Rahul Gandhi will not have to appear in the Lower Court of Patna on 25th April. The High Court has fixed the next date of hearing on May 15 and till this date the proceedings of the lower court will also be stayed.
Let us tell you that this petition was filed in 2019 itself regarding the Modi surname case. BJP MP Sushil Modi had filed a case against him. In this case, the MP-MLA court of Patna had asked Rahul Gandhi to appear personally on 25 April. After this, Rahul challenged this decision in the High Court. On which a hearing was held in the single bench of Justice Sandeep Kumar on Monday.
Let us inform that Rahul Gandhi was sentenced to two years in jail by the Surat court in the four-year-old case of defamation of the Modi surname case. After this decision of the court, according to the rules, his parliament membership was also canceled by the secretariat. Let us tell you that during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi was giving a speech in Kolar, Karnataka, during which he gave a controversial statement regarding the Modi surname.
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