PIL Challenging Rahul Gandhi's LS Election: Allahabad HC Seeks Registry Report On HC's 2016 Directive Against Petitioner's Advocate

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed its registry to submit its report on a 2016 Judgment of the High Court passed related to the advocate representing the petitioner in a Public Interest Litigation plea challenging Rahul Gandhi's election to the Lok Sabha. "This court has perused the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in the case of Hindu Personal Law Board Vs. Union of India and Others.wherein certain directions were given to the Registry of this Court to examine the writ petitions filed at the behest of learned counsel for the petitioner.No such report has been submitted by the Registry of this Court in compliance of the aforesaid judgment and accordingly, Registry is directed to examine the aforesaid judgment of the Division Bench of this Court and submit its report," a vacation bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal observed in its order. Justice Deshwal orally remarked: “Allahabad HC ke aadesh ke anusar aapki koi bhi PIL petition 25,000/- ki cost ke bina nahin dayar ki jaa sakti” Pursuant to the Court's query, the Petitioner's counsel submitted that he had filed multiple cases before the High Court and the Supreme Court, and the Registry never objected or asked him to submit a DD. #AllahabadHighCourt — Live Law June 26, 2024 More details here: PIL To Set Aside Rahul Gandhi's LS Election From Rae Bareli: Allahabad HC Adjourns Hearing Sans Going Into Merits Of Case It may be noted that the PIL plea has been filed by Karnataka BJP Worker S. Vignesh Shishir through advocate Ashok Pandey to set aside Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's election as an MP from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat on the ground that he is not an Indian Citizen but a British citizen and thus ineligible to contest the LS Polls.