NEW DELHI: Top Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the country's highest court on Saturday over his conviction for defamation, one of his lawyers said, days after a lower court refused to intervene.
‘PUNISHMENT TOO HARSH?’ Pedestrians walk past posters of India’s Congress leader Rahul Gandhi following a court refusing to stay his jail sentence for defamation in Mumbai on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Gandhi was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for comments he made in 2019, which a court ruled were insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those sharing his surname. AFP PHOTO