INDIA SUMMARIZED

 The election of Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj has been challenged in the Allahabad High Court by a man who says he was kidnapped to prevent him from contesting. Hearing a petition filed by lawyer Prabhat Kumar Pandey, Justice D.P. Singh, on Sept 11 issued notice to Yadav and the Kannauj district magistrate seeking a response within six weeks. The petitioner alleged that he wanted to contest against Dimple Yadav in the Kannauj by-polls, but workers and activists of the Samajwadi Party (SP) kidnapped him at the behest of Dimple Yadav. As a result, he could not file his nomination, the lawyer claimed. Pandey further told the court in his petition that he brought the matter to the notice of the district magistrate, but the official refused to come to his aid. Demanding that the election of Dimple Yadav be cancelled and fresh elections for the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat be held, the petitioner has also sought...