Lucknow, April 7 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has fixed April 15 as the next date of hearing in the Rahul Gandhi citizenship case. The court conducted a hearing in the chamber of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi for around two hours on Monday.

Two officials from the Union ministry of home affairs arrived here from New Delhi with documents related to the case.

Senior advocate SB Pandey, assistant solicitor general of India, represented the Union government in court. He was assisted by government counsel Raj Kumar Singh and advocate Anand Dwivedi. Advocate VK Singh represented the state government.

THE CASE

The petitioner S Vignesh Shishir, a Bharatiya Janata Party worker from Karnataka, has challenged a January 28 order pa...