NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday moved the Gujarat high court after a sessions court rejected his plea to stay his conviction in the “Modi surname” case.
The former Congress president’s lawyer has submitted a scanned copy of the application to the HC and will file the signed copy tomorrow.
Rahul’s move comes just days days after he vacated his official bungalow in Delhi following his disqualification as a Lok Sabha member.
The former Congress chief was disqualified from Parliament after a Surat court convicted him and awarded a two-year sentence in a defamation case over his Modi surname remarks made in Kolar in Karnataka in 2019.
He moved a sessions court against the magistrate’s order but his plea was rejected.
A relief on his conviction and disqualification could have paved the way for him to retain his official bungalow, allotted to him as a Wayanad MP.
The 52-year-old Congress leader was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019.
He was disqualified a day after the lower court sentenced him to two years in jail on March 23 in connection with the case filed by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi.
(With inputs from agencies)