New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and party’s Vice-President Rahul Gandhi moved the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to quash the Delhi High Court order upholding the issuance of summons to them in the National Herald case relating to misappropriation and criminal breach of trust.
The appellants who are scheduled to appear in the trial court on February 20 besides seeking to set aside the impugned order sought stay of the summons and all further proceedings pending in the Patiala House trial court in the complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swami (who has also filed a caveat).
They said the Complainant was acting as a political activist rather than a legitimate Complainant or a conscious citizen. The predominant purpose of filing the Complaint was to defame the important leaders of the Congress Party as a political move In a case of cheating, it is necessary that the person or the entity, that is alleged to have become the victim of offence of cheating alone can elaborate what the misrepresentation was and how and in what manner the victim of cheating was misled.
