India, Sept. 12 -- A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking probe against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi alleging she was included in electoral rolls three years before acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983. Observing the issue of citizenship squarely fell under the "exclusive constitutional and statutory mandate of the Central Government", Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia said, "Such a course, in substance, amounts to a misuse of the process of law by projecting a civil or ordinary dispute in the garb of criminality, solely to create a jurisdiction where none exists."
The complaint, the court said, was "fashioned with the object of clothing the court with jurisdiction through allegations which are legally unte...