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  • Court docket summons Congress leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, Siddaramaiah, DKS in defamation case

    By means of PTI

    BENGALURU: The BJP has filed a defamation criticism towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Leader Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Leader Minister DK Shivakumar, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), earlier than the Further Leader Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Court docket right here.

    The particular court docket solely to handle felony instances associated with elected former and sitting MPs/MLAs has taken cognisance of the offences beneath Sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and posted the case for recording the sworn remark on July 27.

    Summons had been ordered to be issued on Tuesday to the entire respondents on this regard.

    The non-public criticism alleging false claims in ads tarnishing the picture of the BJP used to be filed through the birthday celebration’s state secretary S Keshavaprasad on Might 9.

    In keeping with the criticism, the commercial launched through the KPCC in primary newspapers on Might 5, 2023, within the run-up to the Meeting election claiming that the then incumbent BJP executive indulged in “40 consistent with cent corruption” and had looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore within the earlier 4 years used to be “baseless, prejudiced and defamatory”.

    BENGALURU: The BJP has filed a defamation criticism towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Leader Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Leader Minister DK Shivakumar, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), earlier than the Further Leader Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Court docket right here.

    The particular court docket solely to handle felony instances associated with elected former and sitting MPs/MLAs has taken cognisance of the offences beneath Sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and posted the case for recording the sworn remark on July 27.

    Summons had been ordered to be issued on Tuesday to the entire respondents on this regard.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The non-public criticism alleging false claims in ads tarnishing the picture of the BJP used to be filed through the birthday celebration’s state secretary S Keshavaprasad on Might 9.

    In keeping with the criticism, the commercial launched through the KPCC in primary newspapers on Might 5, 2023, within the run-up to the Meeting election claiming that the then incumbent BJP executive indulged in “40 consistent with cent corruption” and had looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore within the earlier 4 years used to be “baseless, prejudiced and defamatory”.

  • Modi observation row: Former IPL boss Lalit Modi threatens to take Rahul Gandhi to courtroom in UK

    Through PTI

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…

    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023

    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…
    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023
    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

  • Congress Satyagraha in strengthen of Rahul: Leaders, employees name for ‘democratic forces to get in combination’

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS

    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023

    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u

    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023

    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

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    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023
    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u
    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023
    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

    READ MORE:

    Just about fifty years later, Rahul follows in grandma Indira’s footsteps with disqualification

    Rahul refused to apologize to Surat court docket, says Gujarat Congress chief

    Plea in SC in opposition to computerized disqualification of lawmakers upon conviction

  • Pass judgement on Denies Trump’s Try To Block ‘Get entry to Hollywood’ Tape From Defamation Trial

    The pass judgement on in author E. Jean Carroll’s defamation and battery case towards Donald Trump denied the previous president’s request to forget sure proof from trial, consistent with court docket paperwork launched Friday.

    Carroll is looking for to give jurors with a infamous 2005 “Get entry to Hollywood” tape, in addition to testimony from two different girls alleging misconduct, at April’s trial in New York Town. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at a high-end New york division retailer within the Nineties, and she or he alleges that Trump defamed her through claiming she was once mendacity concerning the incident.

    Trump’s legal professionals up to now argued {that a} hot-mic recording from TV’s “Get entry to Hollywood,” which got here to mild weeks prior to his victory within the 2016 presidential election, was once “inappropriate and extremely prejudicial.” Additionally they claimed that testimony from the 2 different accusers “will be offering no related or significant perception into the central query” of the case.

    However Carroll’s legal professionals maintained that their testimony can be necessary to illustrating the previous president’s “modus operandi of forcing himself on nonconsenting girls.”

    U.S. District Courtroom Judge Lewis Kaplan dominated Friday that the “Get entry to Hollywood” recording and the testimony may well be introduced at trial.

    Testimony from Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff would intention to “display that Mr. Trump has a propensity for such habits,” Kaplan wrote in the court docket paperwork.

    Kaplan added that the previous president, who introduced a brand new bid for the White Area final 12 months, nonetheless has a proper to disclaim the accusations from the ladies, as he has achieved up to now.

    In 2016, Leeds accused Trump of grabbing her breasts and different irrelevant touching on an aircraft many years prior. Round the similar time, Stoynoff alleged that he had kissed her with out her consent right through an interview in December 2005.

    Amid filming for an “Get entry to Hollywood” look in 2005, Trump raved about having the ability to do the rest he sought after to ladies he discovered horny.

    “You realize I’m mechanically drawn to stunning — I simply get started kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Simply kiss. I don’t even wait. And while you’re a celebrity, they assist you to do it. You’ll do the rest,” he mentioned within the recording.

    “Take hold of them through the pussy. You’ll do the rest,” added Trump, who was once then best possible referred to as an actual property wealthy person and the host of NBC’s “The Apprentice.”

    Following her accusations, Trump has mentioned that Carroll isn’t his “sort,” however he’s additionally incorrect her for an ex-wife.

    “We handle the maximum self assurance that our shopper can be vindicated on the upcoming trial,” legal professional Alina Habba, who represents Trump, advised HuffPost in a observation Friday. An legal professional for Carroll declined to remark.

    Want lend a hand? Consult with RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Attack On-line Hotline or the Nationwide Sexual Violence Useful resource Heart’s website online.

  • SC permits plea of India As of late chairperson in prison defamation case 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Ultimate Courtroom on Monday allowed the attraction of India As of late Chairperson Aroon Purie in opposition to a prison defamation grievance filed in opposition to him for an alleged defamatory article printed within the mag in 2007.

    A bench headed via Leader Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, on the other hand, refused to permit the plea of the journalist who had authored the alleged defamatory article within the India As of late mag.

    “We’ve permitted the attraction most popular via Poorie and pushed aside the attraction via the journalist. We’ve allowed the attraction via public servants as neatly,” mentioned the CJI whilst saying the decision.

    The defamation grievance was once filed over a information article “Venture Misconduct” printed within the mag and it has reported allegations in opposition to an Indian Venture professional then posted in Edinburgh.

    The brand new article had referred to a couple allegations in opposition to an Indian professional allegedly in quest of some favours and monetary irregularities.

    NEW DELHI: The Ultimate Courtroom on Monday allowed the attraction of India As of late Chairperson Aroon Purie in opposition to a prison defamation grievance filed in opposition to him for an alleged defamatory article printed within the mag in 2007.

    A bench headed via Leader Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, on the other hand, refused to permit the plea of the journalist who had authored the alleged defamatory article within the India As of late mag.

    “We’ve permitted the attraction most popular via Poorie and pushed aside the attraction via the journalist. We’ve allowed the attraction via public servants as neatly,” mentioned the CJI whilst saying the decision.

    The defamation grievance was once filed over a information article “Venture Misconduct” printed within the mag and it has reported allegations in opposition to an Indian Venture professional then posted in Edinburgh.

    The brand new article had referred to a couple allegations in opposition to an Indian professional allegedly in quest of some favours and monetary irregularities.

  • Donald Trump Sues CNN For Defamation, Inspiring Twitter Mockery

    The $475 million lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court docket in Citadel Lauderdale, Florida, alleges the cable community performed a marketing campaign of “libel and slander” towards the previous president and used its affect as a information group “for the aim of defeating him politically.”

    The go well with additionally names on-air personalities on CNN and stated they used the time period “the Large Lie” — a time period related to Nazi Germany — to confer with Trump’s repeated, false insistence that the 2020 election was once fraudulent.

    Even though Trump introduced his intent to sue the community previous this summer time, previous skeptics have famous that he would possibly threaten proceedings about folks’s phrases however hardly recordsdata them ― most probably since the discovery procedure may power him to reply to embarrassing questions below oath.

    As well as, defamation fits can also be laborious to win, particularly if a media outlet can turn out that the allegedly defamatory statements are in truth true.

    No longer strangely, information of the lawsuit attracted a lot of Twitter mockery, together with from notable Trump critics.

  • Alex Jones Despatched ‘Intimate Photograph’ Of His Spouse To Roger Stone, Attorney Says

    The far-right conspiracy theorist despatched an “intimate picture” of his spouse to longtime Donald Trump crony Roger Stone, in line with a attorney for the Sandy Hook folks who gained their defamation lawsuit towards Jones. (Watch the video under.)

    Lawyer Mark Bankston in the past printed that legal professionals for Jones by accident despatched him two years of Jones’s textual content messages, together with intimate ones. On Monday, Bankston instructed “The Younger Turks” that one textual content contained an “intimate picture” of Jones’ spouse that was once despatched to far-right provocateur Stone.

    “I’m just a little serious about it as a result of that intimate picture was once despatched to Roger Stone, and I don’t know if that was once consensual,” Bankston stated.

    “And if it wasn’t consensual, and Mrs. [Erika] Wulff Jones will have to learn about that,” he persisted. “And there could be one thing that must be finished about that. Alternatively, it may well be completely consensual. But if I see that — and I don’t see any indication that it was once — I’m involved one thing will not be at the up and up with that. There are indubitably regulations in positive states about that.”

    Jones were given his long-deserved comeuppance for repeated lies concerning the Sandy Hook college bloodbath with a jury award for roughly $45 million in damages after the oldsters of 6-year-old capturing sufferer Jesse Lewis sued him.

    HuffPost didn’t right away listen again from legal professionals for Jones or Stone.

  • Alex Jones Will have to Pay $4.1 Million To Sandy Hook Folks, And The Jury Isn’t Achieved But

    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay greater than $4 million to the oldsters of a kid killed within the Sandy Hook college capturing after spending years spreading lies that the capturing didn’t occur. The jury isn’t achieved but, both.

    The jurors deliberated for lower than an afternoon prior to coming to its choice Thursday that Jones should pay $4.1 million. They’ll be again in court docket once more Friday, this time to decide an extra quantity Jones should pay up in punitive damages.

    In conjunction with the judgment, Jones must pay an extra $1.5 million in sanctions, Houston lawyer Mark Bankston instructed HuffPost.

    Jurors within the Austin, Texas, court docket had been tasked with discovering an acceptable compensatory quantity that Jones and Infowars should pay to a couple of Sandy Hook oldsters, whose 6-year-old boy, Jesse, died within the 2012 Connecticut capturing that left 20 youngsters and 6 adults useless.

    For years, Jones and his outlet have claimed the capturing used to be pretend, resulting in harassment of the households from listeners of his display. Jones misplaced the case ― at the side of a number of others ― prior to it would even move to trial after a pass judgement on dominated default judgment towards him for now not turning over court-ordered paperwork associated with the case final 12 months.

    Thursday’s verdict gained’t be the tip of the jury’s process. A shorter, 2d portion of the trial will start to decide how a lot further cash Jones should pay in punitive harm as an acceptable punishment for defaming the oldsters in accordance with his internet value. Legal professionals for fogeys Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis plan to name knowledgeable witness to testify about Jones’ internet value.

    Bankston mentioned Heslin and Lewis are “extremely joyful with the outcome” of the jury’s choice and “sit up for placing Mr. Jones’ cash to excellent use.”

    “With punitive damages nonetheless to be made up our minds and a couple of further defamation proceedings pending, it’s transparent that Mr. Jones’ time at the American level is in any case coming to an finish,” Bankston mentioned in a commentary.

    Jones’ two-week trial has helped peel again the curtain on Infowars’ ethically-bankrupt operation and presented a better glimpse into the income Jones and his outlet have reaped whilst spreading lies in regards to the capturing. On Wednesday, Jones used to be faced at the stand with profits that the Infowars retailer ― which sells non-FDA-approved dietary supplements at the side of survival equipment ― has made over time.

    On one specifically winning day, for example, the shop made $800,000. Jones didn’t dispute the quantity, however complained that legal professionals for the plaintiffs had been “cherry selecting” his maximum profitable days. HuffPost first reported previous this 12 months that Jones’ retailer bought $165 million in product from 2015 to 2018. Jones used to be additionally not too long ago given $8 million in an nameless Bitcoin donation. When requested in regards to the donation, Jones instructed HuffPost outdoor of court docket final week that he had already spent it.

    For years, Alex Jones and his conspiracy outlet Infowars amplified the horrendous lie that 20 kids and six adults weren't killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, shooting.
    For years, Alex Jones and his conspiracy outlet Infowars amplified the horrendous lie that 20 youngsters and 6 adults were not killed within the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, capturing.

    Representation: HuffPost/ Picture: Reuters

    Testimony from Jones on Wednesday concluded with a dramatic second when Jones used to be faced along with his personal textual content messages, taken from his telephone that used to be by accident passed over to the plaintiff’s legal professionals through his personal protection workforce.

    “Do you know 12 days in the past your legal professionals tousled and despatched me a complete virtual replica of your whole mobile phone, with each and every textual content message you’ve despatched for the previous two years?” Legal professional Mark Bankston requested Jones at the stand. “And when knowledgeable didn’t take any steps to spot the ones texts as privileged?”

    Jones didn’t know, and used to be faced with a 2020 textual content that discussed Sandy Hook. That’s an issue as a result of Jones in the past testified below oath that he’d passed over all communications citing Sandy Hook to the court docket.

    “ what perjury is, proper?” Bankston requested Jones.

    The trial noticed different dramatic moments together with a deposition from a former Infowars worker who mentioned he begged personnel to prevent spreading lies about Sandy Hook, most effective to be laughed at. And Infowars sidekick Owen Shroyer admitted at the stand that he did not anything to fact-check the accuracy of a bogus tale claiming Heslin didn’t grasp his useless kid.

    “I can have achieved a greater process,” Shroyer mentioned at the stand final week.

    “That you must have achieved A process,” lawyer Kyle Farrar shot again. “That you must have achieved one thing.”

    On Tuesday, oldsters Heslin and Lewis in any case were given to carry Jones’ ft to the fireplace once they testified in regards to the hurt he has led to. Lewis spoke immediately to Jones whilst at the stand, telling him a number of instances to concentrate as she spoke about her son and the wear and tear Jones has led to.

    “I sought after to let you know on your face, as a result of I sought after you to grasp I’m a mom at first, and I do know you’re a father,” Lewis mentioned to Jones. “My son existed, and also you’re nonetheless in your display nowadays seeking to say I’m nice, I’m an actress, I’m deep state. Prevent.”

    Lewis additionally spoke in regards to the final day she had together with her son. Jesse used to be being dropped off in school, and had written “I like you” within the frost that had collected at the automotive. Lewis gave him a large hug, and Jesse went to elegance.

    Lewis now runs a nonprofit, the Make a choice Love Motion, which teaches social and emotional studying abilities to youngsters in class.

    In separate testimony, mother or father Heslin disregarded Jones’ past due intended apologies.

    “Alex Jones’ apologies are nugatory,” Heslin testified Tuesday. “At this level, any apology would now not be trustworthy, it’s long past too past due. I don’t even know if Alex is able to a trustworthy apology.”

    Whilst Heslin used to be at the stand, Jones used to be miles clear of the courthouse airing an Infowars phase. As Heslin testified, Jones spoke on his program and referred to as the daddy of Jesse “gradual” and “at the spectrum.”

  • Alex Jones Faced With Damning Sandy Hook Texts After His Legal professionals ‘Messed Up’

    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had his personal damning textual content messages learn again to him throughout testimony Wednesday in a tribulation that may resolve what quantity of money he must pay to 2 Sandy Hook oldsters he smeared for years.

    All through a cross-examination of Jones in an Austin, Texas, court, lawyer Mark Bankston accused the Infowars host of mendacity to the court docket when he claimed in a deposition he had grew to become over all Sandy Hook-related paperwork and textual content messages as a part of discovery within the defamation case.

    Jones didn’t rely on something: his personal lawyer handing over the products to the plaintiffs’ legal professionals on a silver platter.

    “Do you know 12 days in the past your legal professionals tousled and despatched me a complete virtual reproduction of all of your cell phone, with each textual content message you’ve despatched for the previous two years?” Bankston requested Jones at the stand. “And when knowledgeable didn’t take any steps to spot the ones texts as privileged?”

    Bankston then published to the court docket ― together with Jones and his lawyer Andino Reynal ― that Jones had a textual content from 2020 citing the 2012 faculty taking pictures that left 20 youngsters and 6 adults lifeless.

    The dialog used to be between Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson and Jones. Watson, who had prior to now warned Jones about spreading the lie that no person died within the Sandy Hook taking pictures, texted Jones to warn him in opposition to pushing any other lie: that the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the arena in 2020 used to be faux.

    Watson despatched Jones an April 2020 Infowars tale with the headline: “STAGED? VIDEO SHOWS HOSPITAL USING DUMMIES IN ER FOR CORONAVIRUS FOOTAGE.”

    “This can be a video of a scientific scholar coaching to intubate,” Watson mentioned in his textual content to Jones. “This makes us glance ridiculous suggesting COVID is pretend. Sandy Hook in all places once more.”

    Jones responded: “I am getting it.”

    The cell phone revelation resulted in a worrying trade in court docket. To start with, Jones protested that he had simply handed off the telephone to his legal professional.

    However Bankston persevered: “You mentioned on your deposition you searched your telephone. You mentioned you pulled down the textual content, did the quest serve as for ‘Sandy Hook.’ That’s what you mentioned, Mr. Jones, proper?”

    Jones attempted to deflect through pronouncing he had “a number of other telephones with this quantity.” The trade persevered:

    Bankston: “In discovery, you have been requested, ‘Do you might have Sandy Hook textual content messages to your telephone?’ and also you mentioned no, proper? You mentioned that underneath oath, Mr. Jones, didn’t you?”

    Jones: “If I used to be wrong, I used to be wrong. You’ve were given the textual content messages proper there.”

    Bankston: “ what perjury is, proper?”

    Bankston additionally introduced up emails Jones had despatched to his personnel discussing industry operations after Jones had testified in a deposition that he didn’t use e-mail, so couldn’t produce any in discovery.

    Any other textual content published Wednesday additional undermined Jones’ declare that Infowars is simply too broke to pay damages. Within the message retrieved from Jones’ telephone, an worker at Infowars informed Jones that they had made “$70k gross benefit” on one specifically a hit day of gross sales. Bankston added that some days, Infowars made $800,000.

    Jones grumbled in regards to the revelations, pronouncing “that is ridiculous” prior to claiming Bankston used to be “cherry-picking” his winning days.

    All through a brief recess, Jones’ lawyer, Reynal, requested Bankston simply how a lot subject matter he’d gotten off his shopper’s telephone. Bankston mentioned it used to be an important quantity.

    Reynal has been robotically admonished through Pass judgement on Maya Guerra Gamble over the process the trial for no longer following elementary process and tasty in disrespectful conduct. Ultimate Wednesday, for example, Reynal used to be observed giving a center finger to Bankston on the finish of lawsuits after Gamble left. He apologized to the court docket that Thursday however used to be reprimanded once more later that day for claiming he didn’t know his shoppers couldn’t speak about the case outdoor of court docket.

    “Since you’re only a brand-new legal professional, proper?” Gamble mentioned on the time. “Sufficient with the ‘Aw, shucks, I don’t know the foundations of the court docket.’”

    On Monday, Bankston informed the court docket that Reynal used to be making an attempt to “sabotage” the trial.

    “He has robotically, each unmarried day of this trial, damaged laws {that a} first-year legal professional is aware of,” Bankston informed Gamble. “He has robotically positioned inadmissible subject matter in entrance of the jury. It’s from our viewpoint at this desk that Mr. Reynal is actively attempting for a mistrial, and clearly we don’t need that to occur.”

    Legal professionals for folks Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis are in the hunt for $150 million in damages. The court docket prior to now entered a default judgment in opposition to Jones for failing to offer court-ordered paperwork.

  • Sandy Hook Guardian Testifies: Alex Jones’ Apologies ‘Are Nugatory’

    The dad or mum of a kid killed within the Sandy Hook Fundamental College taking pictures testified Friday that conspiracist Alex Jones will have to be held in control of the lies he unfold about his lifeless kid over time.

    “Alex Jones’ apologies are nugatory,” Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old boy Jesse Lewis died within the 2012 taking pictures, testified. “At this level, any apology would now not be trustworthy, it’s long gone too past due. I don’t even know if Alex is able to a trustworthy apology.”

    In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse, a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, holds a picture of them together as he wipes his eye while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.
    On this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 record picture, Neil Heslin, the daddy of Jesse, a 6-year-old boy who used to be killed within the Sandy Hook bloodbath in Newtown, Connecticut, holds an image of them in combination as he wipes his eye whilst attesting ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Attack Guns Ban of 2013.

    Jones is on trial in Austin, Texas ― the place his conspiracy outlet Infowars is based totally ― to decide what quantity of money he’s going to in the long run must pay to oldsters Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son used to be killed within the taking pictures that left 20 youngsters and 6 adults lifeless. For years, Jones and others attached to him have peddled that lie that the taking pictures used to be faux.

    Heslin made transparent in court docket Friday that he isn’t after Jones’ cash, however that hitting him in his pockets could also be the one option to get him to prevent his lies.

    “I consider it’s the one option to put a forestall to it, to forestall this from going down anymore,” Heslin stated. “There’s were given to be a robust deterrent to position a forestall to what’s being stated.”

    Heslin described his son as an “full of life” kid who liked animals and serving to others. The day of the taking pictures, Jesse led his classmates to protection and most probably stored lives. Jones used to be now not in court docket throughout Heslin’s testimony.

    “It’s disrespectful,” Heslin advised the jury of Jones’ absence within the court docket. “I believe it’s a cowardly act of Alex Jones to not face me right here on this court docket. He doesn’t have the braveness to take a seat right here and face me.”

    Heslin described the harassment he has confronted over years, together with an incident he described as “a couple of years again” by which his area and automobiles had been shot at.

    “I concern for my lifestyles, for my protection, for my circle of relatives’s protection,” Heslin stated. He and Lewis have had non-public safety with them because the trial, now in its 2d week, performs out.

    In her personal testimony Friday, Lewis described a Christmas morning after the taking pictures when a person drove as much as the house to take footage. Lewis stated she now has a gun for defense from those that may search to hurt her last son.

    “I’m a unmarried mom accountable for the protection of each my boys, and I used to be now not ready to stay one in every of them secure,” Lewis testified. “So I’m going to stay my surviving son secure.”

    A voicemail message used to be additionally performed in court docket from Infowars listener Lucy Richards, who used to be sentenced to 5 months in jail for sending dying threats to Sandy Hook dad or mum Lenny Pozner.

    “You’re a loser, you’re going to rot in hell,” Richards stated within the voicemail performed for the jury. “Loss of life is coming to you actual quickly, motherfucker. You’ll die.”

    Jones’ legal professional, Andino Reynal, stated in his wondering of Heslin that the Sandy Hook lie didn’t originate with Jones. Heslin stated that even supposing it had been true, it used to be Jones’ huge platform that allowed the lies to proliferate.

    “Alex is the person who lit the fit and began the fireplace,” Heslin advised the court docket. “Others had been bringing him wooden to stay it going. That’s as a result of Alex has the sort of massive platform.”

    Attorneys for the plaintiffs are in search of $150 million in damages.