Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress party, was recently sentenced to two years in prison in a criminal defamation case "for 2019 comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname at an election rally."

"A two-year jail term would mean Mr Gandhi would not be able to contest the 2024 general election."

"But some experts were puzzled by the order handed down by the court in Surat. Legal scholar Gautam Bhatia tweeted that "references to a generic class of persons" - surnames in this case - are not "actionable unless an individual can show a direct reference to themselves".

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