India, Sept. 11 -- By Sushil Batra

New Delhi [India], September 11 (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday dismissed a criminal complaint against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, holding that the plea was legally untenable, deficient in substance, and beyond the scope of its authority.

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

The judge said the complaint relied only on uncertified photocopies of electoral rolls from 1980 and amounted to "a misuse of the process of law by projecting a civil or ordinary dispute in the garb of criminality."

The order stated, "Mere bald assertions, unacc...