AHMEDABAD, India ... to two years in prison. Gandhi, a senior leader of the Congress party and the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, will appeal against the order in a higher court ...
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been sentenced to two years in prison in a criminal ... But some experts were puzzled by the order handed down by the court in Surat.
Indian opposition leader Rahul ... jail sentence in a criminal defamation case. The court in Gujarat state granted him bail until the next hearing on 13 April. Mr Gandhi had been sentenced to two ...
An Indian court has found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname and sentenced him to two years in prison. The case ...
An Indian court has dismissed opposition leader Rahul Gandhi ... conviction and prison sentence of two years or more are grounds for expulsion from Parliament. Gandhi was immediately disqualified ...
Talking about his recent disqualification as a member of Parliament, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that he is perhaps the first person to be handed the “maximum sentence for defamation”.
The magisterial court, in the forenoon, reserved its order on Gandhi's plea for grant of NOC after hearing submissions of his lawyers and Swamy, who is the complainant in the National Herald case.
The prosecution of Gandhi was widely condemned by opponents of Modi as the latest assault against democracy and free speech by a government seeking to crush dissent. An Indian court on Monday ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has never been a minister ... Now, his conviction and two-year jail sentence in a defamation case, and consequent dismissal from ...
The former Congress chief is an accused in the National Herald case in which BJP leader Subramanian Swamy is the complainant.
The Congress MP was convicted by the court ... Mr Gandhi's speech." India's criminal defamation law is British-era legislation under which there can be a maximum prison sentence of two years ...
