Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with his sister and party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi arrives at Delhi airport, after filing an appeal in Surat District Court challenging his conviction in a defamation case, in New Delhi, Monday, April 3, 2023.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday moved a Surat court against his conviction in a defamation case and said that he was “treated harshly at the stage of determination of sentence taking into account his position as Member of Parliament” and that the maximum sentence has caused him “irreparable loss”.
In his appeal before the Surat district and sessions court against his two-year conviction, Gandhi also stated it seemed “reasonable to argue” that the maximum sentence awarded to him was to “attract the order of disqualification (as an MP)”.
