Team News Riveting
New Delhi, May 23
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday moved a Delhi court seeking a no objection certificate to secure a fresh “ordinary passport”.
The former Congress Lok Sabha member from Wayanad had surrendered his diplomatic travel document upon his disqualification as an Member of Parliament (MP) following his conviction in Gujarat in a defamation case. He is also an accused in the National Herald case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sought the response of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, the complainant in the National Herald case, to Gandhi’s application and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
“The applicant ceased to be a Member of Parliament in March 2023 and as such he surrendered his diplomatic passport and is applying for a fresh ordinary passport… By way of the present application, the applicant is seeking permission and no objection from this Court for issuance of fresh ordinary passport to him,” the application said.
The court had on December 19, 2015 granted bail to Gandhi and others in the Herald case.
