Rahul Gandhi Citizenship: Swamy Says His Plea 'Different', Delhi HC Seeks Digital Documents

Subramanian Swamy informed the high court today that he had obtained the petition copy of the ongoing case in the Allahabad High Court and that matter is different from his pleadings. 

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted BJP leader Subramanian Swamy time to file a copy of petition pending before the Allahabad High Court on the issue of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. In previous hearing, the high court had noted that a similar plea was pending before the Allahabad High Court, and two courts can't be hearing the same matter simultaneously.

Subramanian Swamy informed the high court today that he had obtained the petition copy of the ongoing case in the Allahabad High Court and that matter is different from his pleadings. 

A bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela then directed Swamy to file the documents in electronic form in compliance with its last order and listed his plea for further hearing on November 6.

Swamy has filed a petition seeking directions from the high court to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide his representation seeking cancellation of Rahul Gandhi's Indian citizenship. He has asked a status report from Home Ministry on the representation filed by him against Gandhi. 

Swamy's plea states that on August 6, 2019, he had had written to home ministry alleging that Rahul Gandhi had voluntarily disclosed to the British government that he was a citizen of British nationality, amounting to holding a British passport.

The Allahabad High Court on September 25 sought Centre's stance on a PIL filed by a BJP member from Karnataka, seeking a CBI probe into Congress leader and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's alleged British Citizenship. The petitioner has sought cancellation of Rahul Gandhi's citizenship.

A bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Om Prakash Shukla directed the ASG Surya Bhan Pandey appearing for the government to obtain instruction from the Home Ministry in the matter, after the petitioner claimed that he had made a detailed representation to the Foreigners Division of the Ministry, the LiveLaw reported.

The Allahabad High Court asked Centre about the proposed decision on the representation by the petitioner filed under the Section 9(2) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, the report said.