{"id":67166,"date":"2019-05-17T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=67166"},"modified":"2019-05-17T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:44:08","slug":"pasighat-court-summons-gandhi-over-modi-surname-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/pasighat-court-summons-gandhi-over-modi-surname-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasighat court summons Gandhi over Modi surname remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>PASIGHAT, May 16:<\/strong> The court of the chief judicial magistrate here in East Siang district on 8 May issued a summons to Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in response to a criminal defamation suit filed by advocate Omit Modi of Pasighat over Gandhi&#8217;s remark on the surname &#8216;Modi&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why do all the thieves have the Modi surname?&#8221; Gandhi had wondered aloud during an election rally in Kolar, Karnataka, recently.<br \/>\nThe counsel for the complainant submitted that &#8220;freedom of expression is not a wild horse; it is qualified with dignity and reputation of others. The said statement is not made in good faith but to malign the reputation of the persons having Modi as surname.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe court here issued the summons for Gandhi&#8217;s appearance before the court on 24 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, May 16: The court of the chief judicial magistrate here in East Siang district on 8 May issued a summons to Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in response to a criminal defamation suit filed by advocate Omit Modi of Pasighat over Gandhi&#8217;s remark on the surname &#8216;Modi&#8217;. &#8220;Why do all the thieves have the Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}