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A Delhi tribunal connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) granted clip till February 7 to Congress person Sonia Gandhi to record her reply connected a plea challenging a Magistrate's order refusing to probe the allegation that she was included successful the electoral rolls 3 years earlier acquiring Indian citizenship successful 1983.
On December 9, Judge Gogne had issued announcement to Ms. Gandhi and the Delhi Police seeking their effect connected the plea.
When the substance was taken up connected Tuesday (January 6), the counsel for Ms. Gandhi sought much clip to record the effect pursuing which the tribunal granted clip till February 7, the adjacent day of hearing.
The September 11 magisterial bid had dismissed the ailment filed by advocator Vikas Tripathi, vice president of the Central Delhi Court Bar Association of the Rouse Avenue courts.
The tribunal had said the ailment was "fashioned with the entity of covering the tribunal with jurisdiction done allegations which are legally untenable, deficient successful substance, and beyond the scope of this forum's authority".
Mr. Tripathi's counsel, elder advocator Pavan Narang, had alleged earlier the magisterial tribunal that successful January 1980, Gandhi's sanction was added arsenic a elector of the New Delhi constituency erstwhile she was not an Indian citizen.
He had claimed "some forgery" and a nationalist authorization being "cheated".
The Magistrate, however, had dismissed the plea seeking a probe by holding that the complainant sought to acceptable the transgression instrumentality successful question by persuading the tribunal to presume jurisdiction, which did not vest successful it legally.
He had observed that "mere bald assertions, unaccompanied by the indispensable particulars required to pull the statutory elements of cheating oregon forgery", cannot substitute a legally sustainable accusation.
The plea, the Magistrate had said, was simply relying upon an extract of the electoral roll, which was "a photocopy of a photocopy of an alleged extract of an uncertified electoral roll" of 1980.
Deprecating the complaint, the Magistrate had said, "Such a course, successful substance, amounts to a misuse of the process of instrumentality by projecting a civilian oregon mean quality successful the garb of criminality, solely to make a jurisdiction wherever nary exists."
