BJP MLA Purnesh Modi, whose criminal defamation complaint led to the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, contended in the Supreme Court that a stay of conviction is granted only in “rarest of rare cases for exceptional reasons”.
Opposing Mr. Gandhi’s plea for staying the conviction, Mr. Modi, in an affidavit said, the Congress leader’s case did not fall in the “exceptional” category.
“At the time of sentencing before the trial court, the petitioner [Mr. Gandhi] far from being repentant and contrite, displayed arrogance... The petitioner has maliciously and recklessly used scurrilous words against a large and totally blameless class of persons, who have caused no harm to the petitioner,” the affidavit said.
