National Herald case: Cong targets BJP after court relief for Rahul, Sonia; calls for PM's resignation

NEW DELHI: The Congress connected Wednesday stepped up its onslaught connected the BJP-led cardinal authorities aft a Delhi tribunal declined to instrumentality cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate’s prosecution ailment successful the National Herald money-laundering case.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the Modi authorities of misusing cardinal agencies to harass absorption leaders, peculiarly the Gandhi family. “They are doing this for governmental vendetta. This lawsuit is lone to occupation the Gandhi family. There is nary FIR successful this case...Our slogan is ‘Satyamev Jayate’, and we invited the judgement successful the case...,” Kharge said. He added that the enactment would instrumentality the contented to the streets, alleging 7 years of continuous harassment by the ED.

Kharge went further, saying, “PM Modi and Shah should resign aft this judgment; they shouldn't occupation radical similar this.”Congress wide scretary K C Venugopal said the ruling had agitated enactment workers nationwide, adding that the Congress would show crossed India to exposure what it called the “systematic misuse” of the ED to people absorption leaders.Senior Congress person and Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi described the lawsuit arsenic a textbook illustration of maltreatment of power. “The National Herald Case is impervious of the misuse of cardinal agencies. The allegations were made, but connected baseless grounds… The accusations were floating successful the air, but the instrumentality remained firmly connected the ground,” helium said. Singhvi noted that betwixt 2021 and 2025, the ED conducted aggregate questioning sessions of elder Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Kharge, which were wide publicised.

Singhvi had earlier termed the substance a “National Harassment case”, rejecting allegations of wealth laundering against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others. He besides accused the ED of being “colour blind”, saying, “If justness is blind, past ED is colour blind. It lone sees 1 colour, the absorption colour.”The alleviation came aft Special Judge Vishal Gogne of the Rouse Avenue Courts ruled that proceedings nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act were not maintainable successful the lack of an FIR for a scheduled offence. The justice held that the ED’s complaint, based connected a backstage ailment by Subramanian Swamy alternatively than an FIR, was “impermissible successful law”.