New Delhi: It is a crucial court hearing for the Congress party on Friday. The Delhi High Court will be hearing petitions by Indian National Congress party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi were summoned in June after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed a complaint accusing them of cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of now-defunct daily National Herald.
Swamy has alleged misappropriation of assets worth Rs 2000 crore of the National Herald newspaper. Swamy had accused Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by just paying Rs 50 lakh by which Young Indian obtained the right to recover Rs 90.25 crore which the AJL had owed to the Congress party. He alleged that in the present scenario over Rs 2,000 crore worth of assets also got transferred to YI, whose 76 per cent of shareholding vests with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and the remaining shareholding of 24 per cent vests with the other accused.
The Congress is hoping that the Gandhis who have been summoned for misappropriation of funds will get relief. Among other leaders who have received summons include Congress leader Motilal Vora and senior Congress member Oscar Fernandes. “We have received a notice from the court. We will answer it in the court,” said Oscar Fernandes.
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