The primary reason for the Supreme Court to stay the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Modi surname case on August 4 is that nobody knows why the trial judge decided to serve him with a two year prison sentence, the maximum punishment for the offence of criminal defamation.
A Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai said there is no clue about it in the trial judge’s verdict.
“The least the trial judge was expected to do was to give some reasons as to why he found it necessary to impose the maximum sentence of two years,” the Supreme Court observed in its four-page order.
