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National Herald case: Court rejects Swamy’s plea seeking documents from Congress
In a big relief for the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the vice-president Rahul Gandhi, a Patiala court on Monday rejected the
New Delhi: In a big relief for the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the vice-president Rahul Gandhi, a Patiala court on Monday rejected the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking account documents from the Congress party in the ongoing National Herald case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen rejected the plea in which Swamy sought the Congress party's balance sheet of 2010-2011 and other documents relating to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) in the case, and listed the matter for a February 10 hearing.
The court set the next hearing on Febraury 10 and asked Swamy to submit a list of witnesses on that date.
Swamy had filed a complaint about "cheating" in the acquisition of AJL, which published the National Herald newspaper, by Young India, "a firm in which Sonia and Rahul Gandhi each own a 38 per cent stake".
The BJP leader had said that National Herald was being used by the Nehru Family to collect funds and aggrandise them.
Swamy had accused them of allegedly conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by just paying Rs 50 lakh, through which Young Indian obtained the right to recover Rs 90.25 crore that the Associated Journals Ltd owed to the Congress.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party leaders Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey, Sam Pitroda and Young Indian are accused in the case.
The Delhi High Court in December 2015 dismissed the plea of the Gandhis to quash the summons issued by the trial court on Swamy's complaint.
