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The Rahul Gandhi conviction intensified as the Indian National Congress leader will challenge the conviction of the Surat Court in the Modi Surname row. In a statement, Gandhi filed a petition, asking the sessions court to set aside the Magistrate's order convicting him in the defamation case. Notably, a Surat court found Rahul Gandhi guilty for his remark and convicted him with two-year imprisonment, creating a political ruckus. 

Salman Khan's interim defamation plea against his NRI neighbor Ketan Kakkar has been rejected by a session court in Mumbai, on March 31. The court said, there is documented proof that proved allegations of Kakkar that Khan was restraining him from approaching his land. Recently, Salman Khan filed a defamation case against Kakkar over his remarks in a YouTube interview, based on allegations of encroachment of land on Khan.

Sending ''obscene messages'' to fiancee cannot be called as an insult to her modesty, said a sessions court in Mumbai. The observation came when the court was hearing the 11-year-old case of rape. The court acquitted the accused man of rape charges saying the woman blindly believed that they would marry. She allowed the man for sex. ''This isn't a case of rape,'' said the court.

A sessions court in Mumbai on August 20 found nine people guilty of murdering a man in 2015, and awarded life imprisonment. Reportedly, the 30-year-old victim Anil Pandey's dog had bitten one of the accused, which led to a heated argument. A day after this incident, the culprits had arrived at Anil's house and killed him, the victim's wife Priya informed the court during the trial.