On December 22, 2025, Delhi High Court has issued notice to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other accused in the National Herald money laundering case. Actually, in this case, Rouse Avenue Court had refused to take action on the charge sheet against Rahul-Sonia. After this the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenged in the Delhi High Court.
Delhi High Court gave hearing date next year
Delhi High Court has accepted the petition of ED and given the next date of hearing as March 12, 2026. On behalf of ED, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in his argument in Delhi High Court said that the final conclusion is that in exchange of the amount of Rs 50 lakh, the accused have received property worth Rs 2,000 crore.
Tushar Mehta said that in June 2014, a private complaint was filed by an individual, on which the lower court had taken cognizance and later the Delhi High Court had put a stay on it.
Names of many big personalities included in the charge sheet
ED had named Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Sam Pitroda, Suman Dubey, Sunil Bhandari, Young Indian and Dotex Merchandise Private Limited in its charge sheet. On ED’s investigation, Congress’s argument was that this is an act of political vendetta, whereas ED claims that this is a serious economic crime in which evidence of fraud and money laundering has been found.
ED accuses Sonia-Rahul of big scam
ED alleges that Congress leaders, as part of a conspiracy, acquired Associated Journals Ltd. To take over the assets of (AJL) worth Rs 2,000 crore, it was acquired through private company ‘Young Indian’ for only Rs 50 lakh. Sonia and Rahul hold 76% shares of this company.
In this case, the ‘income earned from crime’ was considered to be Rs 988 crore. Also, the market value of the associated properties has been said to be Rs 5,000 crore.
What is National Herald case?
The National Herald case in which the charge sheet has been filed against Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi is related to the National Herald newspaper. It was started in 1938 by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru along with 5 thousand freedom fighters. This newspaper was published by AJL. This newspaper was closed in 2008. Then news of controversy and scam on its acquisition started emerging.
