Overview
- Delivering its order on May 12, the Lucknow bench told the CBI and ED to verify a disproportionate-assets complaint against Rahul Gandhi and to file progress updates within eight weeks.
- Counsel for both agencies confirmed they had received the complaint and would submit counter-affidavits, while the Serious Fraud Investigation Office asked for time to file its reply.
- The bench permitted the petitioner to add the Department of Personnel and Training, the Department of Revenue, and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as parties to the case.
- The judges directed that the petition papers remain in a sealed cover in court custody, with the next in-chambers hearing scheduled for July 20.
- The petition by Karnataka BJP worker S. Vignesh Shishir alleges the Gandhi family’s assets exceed declared income, and a prior filing from him on alleged British citizenship saw an FIR order withdrawn the same day for lack of hearing.