The Allahabad Excessive Courtroom shall be listening to a plea in search of the revocation of Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship. That is the third plea by the identical petitioner, Vignesh Shishir, in search of comparable reduction, a Bar and Bench report mentioned.
The sooner two pleas had been junked by the Excessive Courtroom. The plea additionally seeks to ban the Congress MP from travelling overseas till the citizenship problem is just not resolved. A Bench of Justice Attau R Masoodi and Justice Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I’ll hear the matter.
Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship problem
In April, over the last listening to, the court docket had expressed dissatisfaction with the standing report by the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) to immediately tackle whether or not Gandhi is an Indian citizen. The bench had then granted 10 days for the federal government to submit a revised report, explicitly answering the query of Gandhi’s citizenship standing following a petition filed alleging that the Congress MP has twin citizenship.
The court docket was listening to a plea that claimed Rahul Gandhi can also be a citizen of the UK, which might make him ineligible to be a member of the Lok Sabha.
The petition claims that Rahul Gandhi’s alleged citizenship of one other nation contravenes Indian regulation, which does not allow twin citizenship.
In March this yr, the Centre had knowledgeable the Delhi Excessive Courtroom that the difficulty over Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship was into account with the Ministry of House Affairs.
In accordance with a PTI report, BJP chief Subramanian Swamy had sought instructions to the MHA to determine over Gandhi’s citizenship.
“The matter is into account,” Further solicitor common Chetan Sharma mentioned. The bench was additionally knowledgeable that the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom, which was seized of an identical case, had not too long ago granted 4 weeks time to the ministry to apprise it in regards to the end result of the proceedings.
Subramanian Swamy’s allegations
In 2019, the MHA issued a discover to Gandhi concerning his citizenship after receiving a grievance from then Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.
Swamy has alleged that an organization named Backops Restricted was registered in the UK within the yr 2003 and that Gandhi was one of many Administrators and secretaries of the corporate, an ANI report mentioned.
Subramanian Swamy has additionally said that the Congress chief had declared his nationality as British in a UK-based firm.
“It has been additional introduced out within the grievance that within the Firm’s Annual Returns filed on October 10, 2005, and October 31, 2006, your date of delivery has been given as June 19, 1970, and that you just had declared your nationality as British. Additional, within the Dissolution utility dated 17/02/2009 of the above-referred firm, your nationality has been talked about as British,” the discover learn.
(With inputs from businesses)
