Overview
- A criminal complaint alleges Sonia Gandhi was listed on the New Delhi electoral roll in 1980, three years before she is recorded as obtaining Indian citizenship on April 30, 1983.
- The plea cites a sequence of entries: inclusion in 1980, deletion in 1982, and re-entry in 1983 after citizenship.
- Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia heard preliminary arguments and set September 10 for the next hearing after noting the case file spans about 230 pages.
- Counsel for the complainant alleges forged documents and cheating of a public authority, and seeks directions to register an FIR and investigate.
- Reports reference statutory bars on non-citizens registering as voters and earlier case records on Gandhi’s citizenship date, and note no response yet from her or the Congress party.