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The Congress connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) claimed that the "illegality" of the Narendra Modi authorities and its "politically motivated prosecution stands afloat exposed" aft a tribunal successful New Delhi refused to instrumentality cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) National Herald money-laundering case against Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and others.
In a statement, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the ED's proceedings against Congress leadership — Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi — successful the lawsuit person been recovered to beryllium "completely amerciable and malafide" by the court.
"The malafide and illegality of the Modi authorities stands afloat exposed. The tribunal has ruled that the ED lawsuit is without jurisdiction; it has nary FIR, without which determination is nary case. This politically motivated prosecution by the Modi authorities implicit the past decennary of the main Opposition enactment stands exposed earlier the radical of India," she said.
"No lawsuit of money-laundering, nary proceeds of transgression and nary question of property; each baseless charges that person been a portion of a governmental witch-hunt, propaganda, estimation assassination and run which stands defeated today," Ms. Shrinate said.
She said the Congress enactment and its enactment are committed to warring for the information and for the rights of each Indian. "We cannot, and volition not ever beryllium intimidated, due to the fact that we combat for the truth," she added.
Refusing to instrumentality cognisance of the national probe agency's money-laundering complaint against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and 5 others successful the National Herald case, the tribunal noted that the complaint expanse filed is based connected a probe into a ailment by a backstage idiosyncratic and not connected an FIR of a predicate offence. “Its cognisance is impermissible successful law,” the justice said.
Reading retired the operative portion from the order, the justice said the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing has already lodged an FIR successful the case, and hence it volition beryllium premature to adjudicate connected ED's arguments successful the lawsuit based connected merits.
The ED has accused Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, arsenic good arsenic precocious enactment leaders Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes, on with Suman Dubey, Sam Pitroda, and a backstage company, Young Indian, of conspiracy and money-laundering.
It has been alleged that they acquired properties worthy astir ₹2,000 crore belonging to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which publishes the National Herald newspaper.
The probe bureau further alleged that the Gandhis held the bulk 76% shares successful Young Indian, which "fraudulently" usurped the assets of AJL successful speech for a ₹90 crore loan.
