NEW DELHI: The Allahabad excessive courtroom on Friday ordered {that a} First Info Report (FIR) be registered towards Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who, in accordance with the petitioner, additionally holds British citizenship.The Lucknow bench of the excessive courtroom directed the Kotwali police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district to register FIR towards Gandhi, who’s each Rae Bareli’s Lok Sabha MP and chief of opposition within the Lok Sabha. The order got here whereas permitting a petition searching for authorized motion within the matter.The petition was filed by S Vignesh Shishir, a BJP employee from Karnataka, who challenged a January 28 order of the Particular MP/MLA Court docket in Lucknow that had dismissed his plea for an FIR towards Gandhi. Shishir claimed to own paperwork and “confidential emails” from the UK authorities indicating that Gandhi can also be a British nationwide.In a put up on X, Shishir thanked the excessive courtroom and described the judgment as “landmark” and “historic.”“I’ll at all times be ever indebted until my final breath to the hon’ble courtroom for bringing out the reality within the curiosity of nationwide safety and bigger public curiosity,” he wrote.The BJP employee added that the Uttar Pradesh authorities has urged the HC to permit it to switch the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Shishir additionally requested the Centre to improve his Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF) safety cowl to the best attainable stage throughout India with quick impact.The Structure of India doesn’t allow twin citizenship.
