Today, while hearing a plea from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the bench headed by Justice Prachchhak, of Gujarat High Court said that they will pass the order during the vacation and pronounce it post-vacation.

On Saturday, lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, representing Gandhi, told the Gujarat HC that the offence for which the Congress leader was awarded the maximum sentence of two years in jail was not serious nor did it involve any "moral turpitude", 

"There are very serious ex-facie vitiating factors of the trial that raise grave apprehension about the process of trial," advocate Singhvi said. 

Justice Hemant Prachchhak of the high court on April 29 began hearing Gandhi’s revision application against the Surat sessions court’s April 20 order declining a stay to his conviction for criminal defamation over his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

After a sessions court in Surat refused to stay the March 23 conviction by a magisterial court that sentenced him to the maximum permissible punishment of two years imprisonment, Rahul Gandhi approaches the Gujarat High Court.

When Singhvi argued that Gandhi is facing irreversible damage, losing his seat in Parliament and his disqualification as MP, the judge commented that greater duty is cast on him towards the people at large, and he should make statements within limits.

The lawyer stressed on the consequences of the conviction and said the conviction could be reversed in the future.

The judge asked the public prosecutor to make submissions on the provisions under which Gandhi’s plea has been filed.

Later, the BJP lawmaker’s counsel, Nirupam Nanavati, submitted that Gandhi could not have filed his plea under multiple provisions and hence his plea was not maintainable.