Last Updated on November 30, 2025 2:29 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
Staff Reporter / New Delhi
The Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has filed a fresh First Information Report (FIR) against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in connection with the decade-old National Herald case.
The FIR, lodged following a complaint from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), alleges criminal conspiracy, cheating, and criminal breach of trust tied to the acquisition of assets belonging to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of the National Herald newspaper.
The ED contends that a scheme was orchestrated to transfer AJL assets, valued at more than 988 crore rupees, to the private company Young Indian (YI) for a nominal 50 lakh rupees. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, who together hold a 76 per cent stake in Young Indian, are named as ultimate beneficiaries. The allegations focus on a 2010 transaction in which the All India Congress Committee (AICC) assigned its right to recover an outstanding 90.21 crore rupee loan from AJL to Young Indian for 50 lakh rupees. The transfer allegedly allowed Young Indian to gain control of nearly all of AJL’s shares and valuable real estate.
The ED had previously filed a chargesheet and attached AJL properties worth 751.91 crore rupees as part of a money-laundering probe. The case, initially triggered by a private complaint from political figure Subramanian Swamy in 2013, has been repeatedly dismissed by the Congress party as politically motivated.