Congress MP Sonia Gandhi received a breather from a Delhi court on Thursday, which dismissed a plea alleging that her name was included in the voters' list three years before she acquired Indian citizenship. "We have dismissed it," Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court said.
The plea was filed by one, Vikas Tripathi, who alleged that the former Congress president's name was included in the electoral roll in 1980, but she became an Indian citizen only in 1983. In his plea, which was filed under Section 175 (4) (power of magistrate to order investigation) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Tripathi claimed that Gandhi's name was deleted from the electoral roll in 1982 and was included again in 1983.
