The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against Congress MP Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper.
The Congress has called this move of the ED as 'revenge politics' and said that the Prime Minister and Home Minister are threatening.
The ED filed a chargesheet against these two senior Congress leaders after an investigation into the matter. Special Judge Vishal Gogne took cognizance of the chargesheet filed on April 9 and fixed April 25 as the date for hearing the case.
The National Herald newspaper is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which is owned by Young Indian Private Limited, a company in which both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have stakes.
A state-sponsored crime: Ramesh
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh posted on X: "The seizure of National Herald's assets is a state-sponsored crime in the name of rule of law."
"Filing of chargesheets against Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and some others is nothing but vendetta politics and intimidation by the Prime Minister and Home Minister," he wrote.
"The Congress and its leadership will not remain silent. Satyameva Jayate," Jairam Ramesh wrote.
Congress leader Sam Pitroda and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation trustee Suman Dubey have also been made accused in the chargesheet.
Earlier this month, the ED had started the process of seizing the properties of Associated Journals Limited (AJL) worth Rs 661 crore.
Prakash Kumar Pandey
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