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Defamation case | Gujarat High Court to deliver verdict on Rahul Gandhi’s plea on July 7

More than a month after it held a final hearing, the Gujarat High Court is set to pronounce its judgement on Friday on former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stay the conviction in the criminal defamation case in which he has been sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Surat. 

The case related to remarks about the Modi surname during a rally in 2019 while campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka. 

After he was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment in March this year, he was disqualified as as a Member of Parliament from Lok Sabha. 

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