More setback for the Gandhis, Cong may get IT notice soon
2 July 2014 5:42 AM IST
After days of court summon to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Congress is likely to get Income Tax notice over National Herald scam. According to well-placed sources, IT officials are all set to send a notice to Congress questioning them as to why the exemption given to it should not be withdrawn.
A Delhi court had issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on charges of misappropriating funds of a company that used to publish the now defunct National Herald newspaper on 26 June. Both the Gandhis have been asked to appear before it on 7 July in connection with the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.
In response to a private complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha had said, ‘I have found prima facie evidence against all the accused.’ The court has directed them to appear before it 7 August.’ The Congress called it ‘a motivated complaint’. ‘The allegations are baseless,’ party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had said. A party statement had added, ‘All the persons named in the National Herald matter will seek legal advice and do the needful.’
Apart from the Gandhis, the court also summoned Congress leaders Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes, Sam Pitroda, who was an advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, and former journalist Suman Dubey, who is close to the Gandhi family. The complaint alleged that the Gandhis formed a company, Young India, in 2010 with 38 percent share each to take control of Rs.2,000 crore worth of assets of Associated Journals Ltd, which published the National Herald. team mp
A Delhi court had issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on charges of misappropriating funds of a company that used to publish the now defunct National Herald newspaper on 26 June. Both the Gandhis have been asked to appear before it on 7 July in connection with the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.
In response to a private complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha had said, ‘I have found prima facie evidence against all the accused.’ The court has directed them to appear before it 7 August.’ The Congress called it ‘a motivated complaint’. ‘The allegations are baseless,’ party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had said. A party statement had added, ‘All the persons named in the National Herald matter will seek legal advice and do the needful.’
Apart from the Gandhis, the court also summoned Congress leaders Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes, Sam Pitroda, who was an advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, and former journalist Suman Dubey, who is close to the Gandhi family. The complaint alleged that the Gandhis formed a company, Young India, in 2010 with 38 percent share each to take control of Rs.2,000 crore worth of assets of Associated Journals Ltd, which published the National Herald. team mp
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