Swamy wants to make new case: Sonia Gandhi

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi have accused BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of seeking a “fishing and roving inquiry” into the National Herald case by calling for certain documents from the party and the Associated Journals Ltd (AJL).

The Congress top-brass has claimed before a Delhi court that Swamy wants to make out a “new case” against it by taking recourse to a “fishing” probe into the matter.

The Gandhis, who along with leaders like Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey and Sam Pitroda, are accused in the case, have also opposed Swamy’s contention, seeking summoning of income tax records from the Congress party and AJL, saying these entities were not accused and hence their records could not and should not be disclosed for maintaining their “confidentiality”.

The vehement opposition to Swamy’s submissions was made in the written reply filed before the court by the Gandhis before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen.They also sought dismissal of Swamy’s plea with exemplary costs. Swamy has accused them of allegedly conspiring to misappropriate funds by paying only '50 lakh by which Young Indian Pvt Ltd obtained the right to recover '90.25 crore which AJL owed to the party.