Rahul Gandhi Passport: A hearing will be held in Rouse Avenue Court on May 26, i.e. today, regarding the demand for No Objection Certificate (NOC) by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for getting a new passport. In this case, the complainant Subramanian Swamy was asked to file a reply on behalf of the court. Swamy has opposed the issue of NOC to Rahul Gandhi. He has said that Rahul frequently goes abroad and his going out can affect the investigation of the ongoing cases against him. Although the court made it clear that this is his fundamental right, Swamy was given time to file his reply.
Rahul Gandhi needs NOC
During the hearing of this case, the court had said that for the last five years, Rahul is going out and his lawyer also appears in the court on every hearing. The court said that Right to Travel is a fundamental right. ACMM Mehta said that while granting bail to Gandhi in December 2015, the court had not imposed any restrictions on his travel. The magistrate said that the court had then rejected Swamy’s request to ban Gandhi’s visit. Let us tell you that Rahul Gandhi had surrendered his diplomatic passport after leaving the Parliament. Due to being named in the National Herald case, Rahul needs NOC from the court to issue an ordinary passport.
On the other hand, Rahul Gandhi has said in his petition that while granting bail in the National Herald case, the court had not imposed any restriction on going out of the country. Now Rahul’s petition will be heard in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Mehta today.
what is the whole matter
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as an MP after he was convicted in a criminal defamation case by a court in Surat, Gujarat. After this, Rahul had returned the diplomatic travel documents. Gandhi has moved the court to get an NOC to obtain a ‘normal passport’. The sentence of a Congress leader has been suspended in a defamation case filed over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘surname’.
The National Herald case is based on a private criminal complaint by Swamy against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others, accusing them of cheating, conspiracy and criminal breach of trust. While granting him bail on December 9, 2015, the court had said that the accused are eminent persons and there is no apprehension that they will flee the country.
