{"id":309890,"date":"2023-12-22T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=309890"},"modified":"2023-12-29T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:45:00","slug":"dhc-directs-eci-to-decide-on-rahul-gandhis-false-vilifying-speech-case-within-8-weeks-legal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/12\/22\/dhc-directs-eci-to-decide-on-rahul-gandhis-false-vilifying-speech-case-within-8-weeks-legal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not in good taste\u2019; Delhi High Court directs ECI to decide on Rahul Gandhi\u2019s \u2018false &amp; vilifying speech\u2019 case within 8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Delhi High Court:<\/span> The present petition was filed seeking a direction to Respondent 2, Central Election Commission of India to take strict action against Respondent 3, Rahul Gandhi for making an allegedly false and vilifying speech at Bayatu, District Barmer, Rajasthan on 22-11-2023 and to register complaints against him under various provisions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002801315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representation of the People Act, 1951<\/a>. The Division Bench of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Manmohan, ACJ.<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini Pushkarna, J.<\/span>, disposed of the present writ petition by directing the Election Commission of India to decide the matter in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Counsel for the Central Election Commission of India submitted that notice dated 23-11-2023 was already issued to Rahul Gandhi. The Court noted that in the said notice, it was stated that if a reply was not received by 6pm on 25-11-2023, the Central Election Commission of India shall take action as it deemed fit. The Court further noted that till date, the Election Commission of India had received no reply and the deadline for filing the reply was also over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court opined that though the statements in the impugned speech, if true, were not in good taste, yet the Election Commission of India was examining the matter, and thus, the Court disposed of the present writ petition by directing the Election Commission of India to decide the matter in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Bharat Nagar v. Union of India, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/e2NVLd8m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 SCC OnLine Del 8191<\/a>, Order dated 21-12-2023<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">For the Petitioner: Adish Aggarwal, Kirti Uppal, Senior Advocates; Shobhit Jain, Sudhir, R.S., Siddharth, Abhinav Singh, Sandeep, Bhavi Garg, Advocates<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">For the Respondents: Chetan Sharma, ASG; Apoorv Kurup, CGSC; Suruchi Suri, Standing Counsel; Amit Gupta, Saurabh Tripathi, Akhil, Aparna, Kirti, Gauri Goburdhan, Aanchal, Vikramaditya, Ananya Mittal, Advocates<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Penal Code, 1860 &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"penal code, 1860\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Though the statements in the speech made by Rahul Gandhi, if true, are not in good taste, yet the Election Commission of India is examining the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2543,34878,13881,61874,34629,43940,63761],"class_list":["post-309890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Delhi_High_Court","tag-eci","tag-election-commission-of-india","tag-false","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-speech","tag-vilifying"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Not in good taste\u2019; 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