Rahul Gandhi was recently convicted in a criminal defamation case by a Gujrat Court. After which he was disqualified from the Parliament. This led to opposition parties all across the Nation to come together and the opposition leader called it Black Day of Democracy. Congress claims that's the Rahul Gandhi is being targeted, so, that he could prevented from giving speech to the Parliament. He was repeatedly pointing allegation on Adani in Parliament, and was talking about PM Modi and Adani relationship, and thus and they are trying to shut him up.
BJP claims this has nothing to do with Adani, and Rahul Gandhi had abused the OBC section of the country, and so he was disqualified.
This is about the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. Rahul Gandhi was holding an election rally in Karnataka. There he gave a speech in which He addressed Lalit Modi, Nirav Modi, and PM Modi as a thieves. It is evident that he is talking about the Demonetisation, But the part the part that became the cause of action comes later on. He asks how comes these thieves are all named Modi. Its clear that he called 3 Modies thieves. A case was filed against Rahul Gandhi because of this and a case was filed under Section 499 and 500 of IPC. These deals with defamation, The meaning of defamation is very simple. If you say anything about any person that affects their reputation, that causes damage to their reputation. It is known as defamation.
In India ,there are two types of defamation.
1. Civil Defamation
2. Criminal Defamation
If you cause civil defamation against anyone, you might pay a monetary fine, but in criminal defamation you might face imprisonment for a term of up to two years Section 500 of the IPC defines this punishment "Imprisonment of two years without a fine" And section 499 of the IPC defines what Criminal defamation.
Wherein you damage the reputation of any person with knowledge and intention. You might assume that one of the 3 Modies he mentioned would have filed this case. But it wasn't so. neither Neerav Modi, nor Lalit Modi or PM Modi filed a complain being called a thief. So who filed the complaint? It was a BJP MLA, and former Gujrat Minister Purnesh Modi. Obviously, this begs the question How he affected by this? Nothing was said about him. He was mocked by man by filing this case. Satrist Rofi Gandhi said that Purnesh felt out because he wasn't mentioned, but if you think about it, Purnesh Modi claims that Rahul Gandhi's comments defamed the entire Modi community in the country.
Moving on the political context, It is crucial to decriminalise defamation so that large corporation cannot be oppress individuals. You can find many examples of this.
In 2018, Anil Ambani filed 28 defamation cases in Ahmedabad, 8 of these cases were against the politicians from the opposition party. But 20 cases were against media organisations and journalists. When the news of alleged Rafale scam broke out, Anil Ambani filed defamation cases against senior journalist Seema Mustafa the founder editor of The Citizen, for Rs70 billion. Against NDTV for Rs100 billion. And against National Herald for Rs 50 billion for their report. In April 2014, Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani filed defamation cases against Paranjoy Guha Thakurta after the release he book of Gas Wars, In which he highlighted the alleged irregularities in the price of natural gas.
Pranjoy Guha Thakurta faced another defamation case filed by Adani Power for writing a article. On the alleged relationship between PM Modi and Gautam Adani. If the media and journalists do not have even much freedom to talks about politicians and corporate scams. How can unearth any scams? Press Freedom Index Ranking has fallen to the 150th position in the year 20222.
On 25 March, Rahul Gandhi took Twitter "I saw fear in the eyes of Prime Minister He is afraid of my next speech in Parliament on Adani Its a direct question Whose money was the Rs200 billion invested in Adani Group by shell companies in foreign funds? LIC funds goes to Adani SBI funds goes to Adani EPFO funds goes to Adani Even After Modani revelations Why is the citizens retirements funds beings being invested in Adani's companies? Hon'ble Prime Minister neither investigation nor explanations, Why are you scared?"
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