The case against Gandhi was filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Surat West MLA Purnesh Modi against the politician’s comments at a rally in Karnataka’s Kolar ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He had also argued that the complaint against Gandhi is not maintainable since the politician did not take the name of Purnesh Modi. This was after at the last hearing on April 29 before the High Court, Singhvi had said that the trial process against Gandhi had “very serious vitiating factors”, which led to his conviction. Meanwhile, Prachchhak ordered the trial court to present the original record and proceedings of the case. The vacation begins on May 5 and the court will reopen on June 5. However, the High Court said that it will use the vacation time to write the order. On Tuesday, as Justice Hemant Prachchhak said that he will pronounce the verdict on the stay application after the summer vacation of the High Court, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Gandhi, urged the judge to grant interim protection for the mean time. Gandhi had moved the High Court on April 15 seeking a stay on the conviction order in the defamation case. The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday refused to grant interim protection to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case against him for his remark about the Modi surname, reported Bar and Bench. Politics, not Imran Khan alone, is to blame for Pakistan’s current predicament.

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