New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- The magistrate court at Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing of a complaint concerning the inclusion of Sonia Gandhi's name in the electoral roll in 1980, before she became an Indian citizen in April 1983. The matter could not be heard due to a lawyers' strike.

The matter was remanded to the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) by the Sessions Court after it set aside the earlier order in which the ACJM had refused to direct the registration of an FIR against Sonia Gandhi.

ACJM (MP-MLA cases) Vinod Joshi deferred the matter to November 6.

On September 21, the Special Judge (MP-MLA cases) allowed the revision against the magistrate court's order. The Sessions Court had set aside ...