The Surat Court Judgment convicting opposition politician Rahul Gandhi for criminal defamation for remarks which can by no stretch of imagination be called criminal defamation of the complainant in the case, and sentencing him for the maximum period of two years imprisonment resulting in his automatic and immediate disqualification from the Indian Parliament is the most recent high profile example of how Indian Courts and law enforcement agencies like the Police are being misused to attack our guaranteed fundamental right of freedom of speech in India.
The judgment can be read at https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/gjsr02020313201912023-03-23-464960.pdf
This judgment is in Gujarati. So one must wait for a translation into English to engage with it.
A preliminary point:
Rahul Gandhi does not speak Gujarati. Were the Court Proceedings carried out in Gujarati? Should a man be convicted by a Judgment in a language he does not understand. The Magistrate speaks English, The Judgment contains quotes in English from judicial precedents, Why should the Judgment not have been written in English then?
Because Central government CEO Mr. MODI wants pest control of opposition from Indian political system
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