SC dismisses plea seeking direction to debar Rahul Gandhi from contesting LS polls

09 May 2019 Evaluate

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre and the Election Commission to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting Lok Sabha elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi rejected the contention of the petitioners, who said that in a form along with the annual data of a UK-based company in 2005-06, it was allegedly mentioned that Rahul Gandhi is a British citizen.

The bench also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna told the petitioners that ‘If some company in some form mentions his nationality as British, does he become a British citizen’.

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