New Delhi: Rouse Avenue Magistrate is going to requite an important verdict on the National Herald specimen today on 29th November. This visualization is considered very important for Congress. The magistrate will decide whether summons should be issued to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi or not. The Enforcement Directorate has filed a tuition sheet in this specimen and now the magistrate has to take conversance of it. D says that his investigation has found touchable vestige of money laundering.
What is the requirement of the investigating agency?
In the tuition sheet filed by the organ in April 2025, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have been made the main accused. Along with this, names of Indian Overseas Congress senior Sam Pitroda, Trakar Suman Dubey and Sunil Bhandari are moreover included. Young Indian Limited and Doctex Merchandise Private Limited have moreover been named accused. The investigating organ claims that it has unbearable material to prove the allegations. Now the magistrate has to decide how much it agrees with these arguments.
What is the National Herald controversy?
This specimen is not just well-nigh financial irregularities, but well-nigh an so-called conspiracy to take over property worth thousands of crores. The controversy began in 2012 when BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed a complaint in the court. His recrimination was that Congress leaders wrongly took tenancy of Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the parent visitor of the National Herald newspaper. JL owned extremely valuable land resources in several cities including Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow. It is so-called that Congress prepared a well-constructed structure in a planned manner to tenancy these properties.
Loan of Rs 90 crores and resources worth thousands of crores in Rs 50 lakhs
According to Swamy's allegation, Congress gave an interest-free loan of Rs 90 crore to AJL. Without this, a visitor named Young Indian was formed, in which Sonia and Rahul Gandhi had 76 percent stake. It is so-called that without paying only Rs 50 lakh, AJL's loan of Rs 90 crore was transferred to Young Indian. As soon as the loan was transferred, 99 percent shares of AJL came to Young Indian. This ways that AJL's resources worth thousands of crores indirectly came under the tenancy of the Gandhi family. ED is calling it a uncontrived specimen of money laundering.
What is the remoter legal process?
If the magistrate issues summons today, Congress may strongly oppose it. The party has been continuously terming this matter as political vendetta. He says that the inside government is misusing the investigating agencies. On the other hand, BJP says that this is whoopee versus self-indulgence and the law is equal for all. The Gandhi family has once taken ladle in this case. Now without the filing of the tuition sheet, the matter has wilt increasingly serious. If summons is issued, all the accused will have to wield for regular bail. If the magistrate wants, it can moreover order arrest.
