Truth shall prevail: Congress on court's refusal to take cognisance of ED charge sheet against Gandhis

New Delhi: The Congress hailed a Delhi court's refusal to take cognisance of the ED charge sheet against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and some others in the alleged National Herald money laundering case, terming it a setback for the Centre for "misusing" investigating agencies "to file false cases" against political rivals. The party's lawyers are, meanwhile, readying for further legal battles, including against the ED's appeal against Tuesday's development.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said: "Even when false allegations were levelled to defame the National Herald, the Congress Party and our leaders, I had said that if we weren't afraid of the British, what are the BJP-RSS or Modi-Shah? Today, the court has also declared the Modi government's actions illegal and thwarted this malicious plot for political revenge. No matter how much force this 'vote-chori (theft) government' uses to crush democracy, we will continue our fight for 1.4 billion Indians and to protect this Constitution. The victory of truth is certain."

Maintaining that the BJP-controlled ED continuously tried its best to frame the Congress leadership in the totally bogus National Herald case, All India Congress Committee general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said, "Today's verdict of the Honourable Court declaring that the entire case is without jurisdiction, without FIR, and as such without basis, proves that this was purely driven by political vendetta. It is a tight slap on the face of all those who repeatedly try to besmirch Sonia Gandhiji and Rahul Gandhiji through this frivolous case. This verdict should come as a clear message to the vendetta-driven investigation agencies including ED who will go to any extent to appease their masters with malicious cases".