‘Politically motivated’: Sonia Gandhi on plea alleging forgery in her voter list inclusion

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Friday opposed a plea before a Delhi court that sought a first information report against her on allegations that she used forged documents to get her name included in the voter rolls of 1980, three years before she obtained Indian citizenship, Bar and Bench reported.

The complaint is “wholly misconceived, frivolous, politically motivated, and an abuse of the process of law,” Gandhi told the court .

Gandhi was responding to a revision plea filed by Vikas Tripathi before the Rouse Avenue Court, challenging a magisterial court order that had refused to direct the registration of an FIR.

The matter came up for hearing on Friday before Special Judge Vishal Gogne, who noted Gandhi’s response and listed the case for arguments on February 21.

Tripathi has 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.

In September, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya of Rouse Avenue Courts dismissed the plea seeking an FIR in the matter.

Back then, Chaurasiya said matters pertaining...

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