The Supreme Court refused to suspend the life sentence of Narayan Sai in a 2013 rape case but directed the Gujarat High Court to decide his pending appeal within three months. Sai was convicted by a Surat court in 2019
After hearing arguments from both sides, a sessions court in Surat said it would pronounce on April 20 its order on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea for a stay to his conviction in criminal defamation case
