A complaint dismissed by a Magistrate Court in September alleging wrongful inclusion of Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s name in the 1980-81 electoral rolls has now been challenged by the complainant, who has moved a revision petition before the Sessions Judge.

The petition is slated for a hearing on December 9, reopening a matter that had earlier been rejected at the threshold.

In its September order, the Rouse Avenue Court had held that the criminal complaint against the former Congress president was legally untenable, deficient in substance, and beyond its jurisdiction.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Vaibhav Chaurasiya observed that the informant had attempted to “persuade this Court to assume jurisdiction which, in law, does not vest in it.”

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