{"id":56497,"date":"2023-07-07T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/07\/indian-court-rejects-rahul-gandhi-plea-suspend-defamation-conviction"},"modified":"2023-07-07T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T12:05:04","slug":"indian-court-rejects-rahul-gandhis-plea-to-suspend-defamation-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56497","title":{"rendered":"Indian court rejects Rahul Gandhi\u2019s plea to suspend defamation conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge calls conviction of opposition leader \u2018just, proper and legal\u2019 as lawyer vows to take case to supreme court<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s most well-known opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is facing another setback after a high court judge refused to suspend his conviction for defamation, a case critics allege is politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in Gujarat high court called Gandhi\u2019s conviction \u201cjust, proper and legal\u201d and said \u201cno injustice\u201d would be done to the politician by refusing to grant his plea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/07\/indian-court-rejects-rahul-gandhi-plea-suspend-defamation-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge calls conviction of opposition leader \u2018just, proper and legal\u2019 as lawyer vows to take case to supreme courtIndia\u2019s most well-known opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is facing another setback after a high court judge refused to suspend his conviction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rahul-gandhi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56497\/revisions\/56498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}