Lucknow, May 14 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking cancellation of the citizenship of senior Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
The petition also sought a ban on Gandhi's foreign travel while his citizenship issue was pending. It may be noted that this is the third petition filed by social activist S Vignesh Shishir challenging Gandhi's citizenship.
His earlier petitions were also dismissed by the court. However, the court allowed Shishir to withdraw the present petition with liberty to file a review of the earlier order passed on May 5 on his second petition.
A division bench of Justice A R Masoodi and Justice Ajay Kumar Srivast...