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NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sonia Gandhi Saturday described arsenic "politically motivated and frivolous" a transgression revision petition earlier a Delhi tribunal against a 2025 magisterial bid that declined to bid an FIR implicit alleged inclusion of her sanction successful electoral rolls successful 1980, 3 years earlier she acquired Indian citizenship. The petition earlier peculiar justice Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue sessions tribunal alleges that the Italian root Sonia's sanction was added utilizing forged documents. The Congress elder described the claims arsenic "wholly misconceived" and the plea arsenic "abuse of the process of law". The plea was filed by 1 Vikas Tripathi, challenging magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya's refusal connected Sept 11 past twelvemonth to bid the FIR. Sonia had been sent notices connected Dec 9, 2025, implicit the plea.
Judge Gogne noted the reply connected Saturday and listed the substance for arguments connected Feb 21. In her reply, Sonia said the proceedings (magistrate) tribunal had rightly held that issues of citizenship autumn "exclusively wrong the domain of the Central govt", portion electoral rotation disputes are "vested solely with Election Commission of India". She argued that transgression courts cannot entertain backstage complaints disguised arsenic IPC oregon BNS offences, arsenic this would interruption the doctrine of separation of powers and Article 329 of the Constitution, which bars judicial interference successful the electoral process.
Sonia added that a "controversy raised successful the media much than 25 years back" was being recycled to record the revision plea, with allegations that were "speculative and unsupported" by authentic documents, and which failed to specify the documents allegedly forged oregon their source. Although the plea claims Sonia's sanction was "re-entered" successful electoral rolls with a qualifying day of Jan 1, 1983, nary supporting papers was placed connected record. "It is incomprehensible connected what ground it has been claimed that the responsive got her sanction re-entered," the reply states.
