Rahul Gandhi dual citizenship case: HC orders FIR against Cong MP

NEW DELHI: The Allahabad precocious tribunal connected Friday ordered that a First Information Report (FIR) beryllium registered against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who, according to the petitioner, besides holds British citizenship.The Lucknow seat of the precocious tribunal directed the Kotwali constabulary presumption successful Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli territory to registry FIR against Gandhi, who is some Rae Bareli's Lok Sabha MP and person of absorption successful the Lok Sabha. The bid came portion allowing a petition seeking ineligible enactment successful the matter.The petition was filed by S Vignesh Shishir, a BJP idiosyncratic from Karnataka, who challenged a January 28 bid of the Special MP/MLA Court successful Lucknow that had dismissed his plea for an FIR against Gandhi.

Shishir claimed to person documents and "confidential emails" from the UK authorities indicating that Gandhi is besides a British national.In a station connected X, Shishir thanked the precocious tribunal and described the judgement arsenic “landmark” and “historic.”

“I volition ever beryllium ever indebted till my past enactment to the hon’ble tribunal for bringing retired the information successful the involvement of nationalist information and larger nationalist interest,” helium wrote.The BJP idiosyncratic added that the Uttar Pradesh authorities has urged the HC to let it to transportation the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Shishir besides requested the Centre to upgrade his Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) information screen to the highest imaginable level crossed India with contiguous effect.The Constitution of India does not licence dual citizenship.