The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi for deposition on July 21 in reference to the National Herald money-laundering case. Sonia Gandhi was slated to seem on June 23. She was given 4 weeks’ time as she was hospitalised for a number of days after being examined constructive for COVID.
Meanwhile, her son Rahul Gandhi has already appeared 5 instances earlier than the central probing company within the final month in reference to the identical case. The nationwide capital witnessed massive scale protests from Congress staff, together with prime Congress leaders similar to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel, as Rahul Gandhi appeared earlier than the ED. Hundreds of Congress staff and leaders had been detained as protests in lots of elements of the nationwide capital created ruckus, stalling visitors at many locations. Several Congress staff alleged that they had been manhandled by the police, whereas many social gathering leaders claimed that the Delhi police had barged into the social gathering headquarters in Delhi.
In 2012, BJP chief Subramanian Swamy filed a felony criticism earlier than a trial courtroom, accusing that senior Congress leaders had been concerned within the fraudulent takeover of the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the writer of the National Herald newspaper by means of the Young Indian Ltd (YIL), whereby the Gandhis collectively held majority of the shares (76 per cent).
It was alleged that the Congress had provided an interest-free mortgage of Rs 90 crore to AJL, which was financially in a poor state. Due to its incapability to pay again the mortgage, YIL acquired all of the property of AJL, price over Rs 2,000 crore for less than Rs 50 lakh. Swamy, in his criticism, alleged that political events are barred from lending cash for business functions, whereas the Gandhis keep that they haven’t profited from the mortgage.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”