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Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking direction to debar Rahul Gandhi from contesting LS polls

Annual data of a UK-based company in 2005-06, it was allegedly mentioned that Rahul Gandhi is a British citizen
Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses an election rally in Gwalior on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses an election rally in Gwalior on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
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PTI   |   New Delhi   |   Published 09.05.19, 07:53 AM

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre and the Election Commission to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting Lok Sabha elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided.

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the contention of the petitioners, who said that in a form along with the annual data of a UK-based company in 2005-06, it was allegedly mentioned that Rahul Gandhi is a British citizen.

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“If some company in some form mentions his nationality as British, does he become a British citizen,” the bench also told the petitioners. 



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