{"id":63823,"date":"2026-04-18T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=63823"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:12:36","slug":"ashok-gehlot-calls-hc-order-for-fir-against-rahul-gandhi-surprising-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/ashok-gehlot-calls-hc-order-for-fir-against-rahul-gandhi-surprising-unnecessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashok Gehlot calls HC order for FIR against Rahul Gandhi \u2018surprising, unnecessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday termed the Allahabad High Court order directing an FIR against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in an alleged dual citizenship case as \u201csurprising and unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Gehlot said the allegations of British citizenship against Gandhi are baseless and that ordering an FIR places an \u201cunwarranted burden\u201d on the executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is surprising that the High Court has ordered an FIR to probe unsubstantiated claims. This amounts to putting unnecessary pressure on the executive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gehlot also pointed out that similar petitions had been dismissed earlier, including by the Allahabad High Court in July 2025 and by the Supreme Court in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Lucknow bench of the High Court had directed registration of an FIR based on a petition filed by a BJP worker, alleging that Rahul Gandhi held UK citizenship and was associated with a company named Backops Ltd, registered in August 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday termed the Allahabad High Court order directing an FIR against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in an alleged dual citizenship case as \u201csurprising and unnecessary.\u201d Reacting to the development, Gehlot said the allegations of British citizenship against Gandhi are baseless and that ordering an FIR places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,37],"tags":[14467,14468,14469],"class_list":["post-63823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-national","tag-ashok-gehlot-calls-hc-order-for-fir-against","tag-rahul-gandhi-surprising","tag-unnecessary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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