No case against Sonia Gandhi for name in voter roll before citizenship: Court

A Delhi court on Thursday, Sept 11, dismissed a complaint that sought registration of an FIR against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over allegations related to her name in the voter list before she became an Indian citizen.
The Rouse Avenue Court pronounced its order on a plea that accused Gandhi of being included in the Delhi voters’ list in 1980, despite acquiring Indian citizenship only on April 30, 1983.
The complaint was filed by a lawyer, who urged the court to direct registration of an FIR and sought directions to police to investigate the matter. The complainant alleged that Gandhi’s name was included in the voters’ list in 1980 and then deleted in 1982.
The complainant argued that Gandhi formally acquired Indian citizenship on April 30, 1983, yet her name appeared in the 1980 Delhi voters’ roll. The petition insisted that this warranted a police investigation.
The BJP also alleged that Congress MP Sonia Gandhi’s name appeared on the electoral rolls three years before she became an Indian citizen as it clapped back at the opposition’s claims of voter fraud in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Former Union Minister and BJP MP Anurag Thakur, addressing a press conference, claimed Sonia Gandhi, who was born in Italy, was added to the voter list in 1980, three years before she became an Indian citizen.
NIA court junks agency plea for polygraph test of 2 Pahalgam accused
A special NIA court in Srinagar in late August rejected the plea of the National Investigation Agency(NIA) for a polygraph test of the two accused arrested in the Pahalgam terror attack, details emerging now show. NIA arrested the two men, Pravaiz Ahmad Jothatd and Bashir Ahmad from south Kashmir on June 22 for allegedly harbouring the Pakistani terrorists involved in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed, and providing them with food and logistical support .
While NIA claimed that the accused had volunteered to undergo a lie-detector test and narco analysis to prove their innocence, the accused told the court that they were not willing for such a test.
“…Keeping in view the fact that both the accused persons have submitted in court today that they are not willing to undergo polygraph/narco analysis test, the application is accordingly dismissed,” said the judgement by the NIA judge.