Delhi court seeks Sonia Gandhi’s response on plea alleging forgery in her voter list inclusion
The petitioner has alleged that her name was added as a voter of the New Delhi constituency in January 1980, when she was not an Indian citizen.
A Delhi court on Tuesday sought responses from Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and the police on a plea challenging a magistrate court order refusing a first information report on allegations that she used forged documents to get her name included in the voter rolls of 1980, three years before she obtained Indian citizenship, Live Law reported.
Special Judge Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue Courts posted the matter for further hearing on January 6.
The plea was filed by Rouse Avenue Court Bar Association Vice President Vikas Tripathi.
Tripathi has alleged that Gandhi’s name was added as a voter of the New Delhi constituency in January 1980, when she was not an Indian citizen. The name was deleted from the electoral rolls in 1982 after the Election Commission found irregularities.
He alleged that the deletion was due to “false documents”.
Her name was re-entered in 1983, the year she obtained citizenship, Tripathi said in his complaint.
In September, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya of Rouse Avenue Courts dismissed the plea seeking an FIR in the matter.
Back then, Chaurasiya said matters pertaining to citizenship fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Union government, while decisions on inclusion in voter rolls rest with the Election Commission, Bar and Bench reported.
