HC disposes of petition on Rahul’s Indian citizenship

The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench on Monday disposed of a petition questioning Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship and allowed the petitioner to explore other alternative legal remedies.

A Bench of Justices AR Masoodi and Rajiv Singh said as the Central Government is not able to give any time limit to resolve the petitioner’s complaint, there is no justification to keep this petition pending.

The court told petitioner S Vignesh Shishir, a BJP worker from Karnataka, that he is free to adopt other alternative legal remedies.

In the PIL, Sishir had claimed that he has documents and some emails of the British government which prove that Rahul is a British citizen, and due to this he is ineligible to contest elections in India and cannot hold the post of a Lok Sabha member.

In the previous hearing on April 21, the court was told that the Centre had written to the UK government seeking details about claims that Gandhi had British citizenship.