Court sets aside order refusing FIR against Sonia Gandhi for ‘forgery’ in her voter list inclusion
The court directed the magistrate to hear the petition afresh and pass a ‘reasoned order’.
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A Delhi court on Monday set aside a magisterial court order that had dismissed a petition seeking a first information report against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for allegedly using forged documents to get her name included in the voter rolls of 1980, three years before she obtained Indian citizenship, Live Law reported.
The magistrate’s order, dated September 11, 2025, did not provide a reason for why the complaint was dismissed entirely, said Special Judge Vishal Gogne of Dwarka courts.
He directed the magistrate to hear the petition afresh and pass a “reasoned order”.
The petition was filed by Rouse Avenue Court Bar Association Vice President Vikas Tripathi.
Tripathi 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.
On Monday, the sessions court said that the trial court had violated provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita by not seeking a status report from the police, reported Bar and Bench.
It said that the magistrate further did not discuss the significance of the sequence in which...
