Lucknow, July 27 -- Former Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Sultanpur Maneka Gandhi on Saturday filed a petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court, challenging the election of Samajwadi Party MP Rambhual Nishad on the grounds of not disclosing all the pending criminal cases against him at the time of filing his nomination papers for the recently concluded Lok Sabha election.

In the petition, Gandhi has pointed out that out of 12 criminal cases, Nishad only mentioned eight in the election affidavit and also concealed the fact that in four of these he had been chargesheeted.

She appeared in person before the registrar of the high court on Saturday to file the petition.

Nishad defeated the sitting MP Maneka Gandhi from Sultan...