The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket has mounted April 15 as the subsequent date of listening to within the Rahul Gandhi citizenship case. The court docket carried out a listening to within the chamber of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi for round two hours on Monday.
Two officers from the Union ministry of home affairs arrived right here from Contemporary Delhi with documents associated to the case.
Senior recommend SB Pandey, assistant solicitor frequent of India, represented the Union government in court docket. He became once assisted by government counsel Raj Kumar Singh and recommend Anand Dwivedi. Point out VK Singh represented the advise government.
THE CASE
The petitioner S Vignesh Shishir, a Bharatiya Janata Occasion worker from Karnataka, has challenged a January 28 enlighten passed by the Particular MP-MLA Courtroom (Lucknow), which rejected his plea to register an FIR towards Rahul Gandhi, chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha and Congress MP from Rae Bareli.
The actual court docket acknowledged that it did no longer like jurisdiction to set up on the problem of citizenship. The petition seeks the registration of an FIR towards Rahul Gandhi and an intensive investigation.
The petitioner has levelled charges towards Rahul Gandhi below the Indian Penal Code, the First price Secrets Act, the Foreigners Act, and the Passport Act.
The complaint became once within the origin filed within the Particular MP/MLA Courtroom in Rae Bareli. Later, on the complainant’s utility, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket transferred the case from Rae Bareli to Lucknow on December 17, 2025.
The Lucknow particular court docket brushed off the petition on January 28. The petitioner attributable to this fact challenged this enlighten within the excessive court docket.
