New Delhi: Taking major whoopee on a petition filed versus Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, a special magistrate of Delhi has issued a notice. The specimen pertains to the inclusion of her name in the voter list, which equal to the petitioner happened at a time when she was not plane an Indian citizen.
What is the whole controversy?
Petitioner Vikas Tripathi alleges that Sonia Gandhi's name was widow to the voter list of New Delhi parliamentary seat in 1980. Whereas she became a resider of India in April 1983.
According to him:
- Name widow in 1980
- Name removed in 1982
- The name was incorporated then in 1983.
The petitioner's treatise is that if his name was in the voter list plane surpassing citizenship, then this is possible only if some documents were fake or prepared in a fraudulent manner.
What did the lower magistrate say?
On September 11, 2025, ACJM Vaibhav Chaurasia had rejected the demand for filing an FIR.
The magistrate had said:
- The visualization related to citizenship is the jurisdiction of the Central Government.
- It is the right of the Election Commission to include or remove any person from the voter list.
- Conducting such an investigation is vastitude the jurisdiction of the magistrate and would value to interference in ramble institutions.
- Doing so would be a violation of Article 329.
- Challenging this order, Tripathi has filed a criminal revision petition.
What happened in the special magistrate of Delhi?
Special Judge (PC Act) Vishal Gogane today sought a response from Sonia Gandhi and Delhi Police without hearing the preliminary arguments of senior well-wisher Pawan Narang. The magistrate said that the next hearing of this specimen will be on January 6, 2026.
What is the treatise of the petitioner?
Senior well-wisher Narang said in the magistrate that if the name was in the voter list plane surpassing citizenship, then some documents must have been fake, made-up or fraudulently prepared. He said that Tripathi had demanded an investigation from the police, but an FIR was not registered. We are not taxing a tuition sheet; we just want the police to start an investigation.
What's next?
The magistrate has directed both Sonia Gandhi and Delhi Police to file replies in this matter. Only without this will the magistrate decide whether the order of the lower magistrate should remain intact or the process of remoter investigation and FIR should be started in this case. This matter has now once then come into discussion at both political and legal levels.
