A Delhi court on Saturday asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi, its vice-president Rahul Gandhi and others to file by July 22 replies to a fresh plea by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking certain documents in The National Herald case of cheating and misappropriation.
The court had last year allowed Dr. Swamy’s pleas to summon these documents. However, the Delhi High Court had later set aside its orders. But at the same time it had said that the right of Dr. Swamy “shall not be curtailed in any circumstance to move a fresh application during the pendency of the proceedings before the court”. Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen gave time to them to file the replies as their counsel submitted that they had not received copies of the Dr. Swamy’s application.
Others facing the heat
Besides Ms. Gandhi and Mr. Gandhi, general secretary of the party, Oscar Fernandes, party’s treasurer Motilal Vora and the Gandhi family loyalists Suman Dubey and Sam Pitorda are also facing prosecution in the case on a complaint by Dr. Swamy. All the accused persons are on bail.
According to the complainant, the accused persons “fraudulently” acquired Associated Journals Ltd., publisher of the daily.
