Sonia Gandhi electoral roll case: Delhi court sets aside order refusing probe

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. FILE PIC

A Delhi court on Monday set aside a magistrate's order refusing to probe the allegation that Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's name was included in the electoral roll three years before acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983.

The bench was hearing a revision plea against the magisterial court's order on a complaint filed by advocate Vikas Tripathi, vice president of the Central Delhi Court Bar Association.

Pronouncing an order, the court said, "An order of the court must maintain fidelity towards the law, and not flirt with facts. This court finds itself unravelling the impugned order rendered by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate on this yardstick."

The court said Tripathi's complaint was that Gandhi's name was unlawfully entered in the electoral roll of New Delhi Parliamentary Constituency in 1980, whereas she attained Indian citizenship only in 1983, and although the name was deleted in 1982, it was re-entered in 1983.

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