New Delhi: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court Thursday decisively dismissed a petition seeking a writ of quo warranto — that challenges the right of a person to hold a public office — against senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, affirming his continued eligibility to serve as a Member of Parliament from Rae Bareli.

The court ruled that with the Supreme Court having stayed Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case against him, the immediate basis for disqualification did not exist.

The order was delivered by a division bench comprising Justices S. B. Saraf and M. Shukla. It said that the Supreme Court’s stay of conviction in 2023 effectively nullified the grounds invoked by the petitioner to challenge Gandhi’s right to hold office. Show Full Article

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