The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Wednesday directed the Centre to hunt directions on the complaints filed by former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s alleged British citizenship.
The path got here from the bench of Chief Justice D Ok Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela in a petition by Swamy.
Swamy has contended in his petition that on August 6, 2019, he had written to the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) on Gandhi’s voluntary disclosure of his British citizenship and stated that Gandhi couldn’t maintain each British and Indian citizenship. The MHA had issued discover to Gandhi on Swamy’s criticism. Nevertheless, Swamy contends that regardless of repeated representations made to the MHA asking for an replace and the standing of his criticism, no motion has been taken or intimated to him so far.
Earlier, in November 2024, the Delhi Excessive Court docket had expressed its concern that adjudicating Swamy’s plea could result in “two parallel proceedings” over the identical situation, as one other plea by a BJP employee from Bengaluru, Vignesh Shishir, difficult Gandhi’s alleged twin citizenship and looking for a CBI probe into the matter, was pending earlier than the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.
In December 2024, the Delhi Excessive Court docket had sought the Centre’s place on Swamy’s petition, looking for the court docket’s instructions to the MHA on the matter.
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