New Delhi, April 15 (H.S.): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a complaint on Tuesday in the Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the money laundering case related to National Herald. In this case, the ED has implicated Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, and Overseas Congress President Sam Pitroda. Special Judge Vishal Gogna has ordered a hearing on the ED’s complaint on April 25.

The ED has filed the complaint under sections 44 and 45 of the Money Laundering Act. The lawyer representing the ED, N.K. Mata, stated that in 2019, the CBI had filed an FIR under sections 403, 406, and 420 of the Indian Penal Code. This case is pending before the Additional Judicial Magistrate at the Rouse Avenue :. Following this, the court ordered the related case file to be summoned from the Judicial Magistrate Court.

In this case, the complainant Subramanian Swamy has alleged that there was a conspiracy to grant Young Indian Limited the rights to the property of Herald House, a building worth ₹1,600 crores located on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi. Swamy claims that the central government granted the land for running a newspaper, and therefore it cannot be used for commercial purposes. On the other hand, the Gandhi family argued that the petition was filed in court with the intention of harassing them unjustly.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar