New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday asked Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and others to appear on December 19 in connection with a complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the National Herald newspaper case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen also granted them exemption from personal appearance on Tuesday.
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed the plea of the Gandhis to quash the summons issued to them by a trial court on Swamy's complaint regarding the acquisition of National Herald and asked them to appear before trial court on Tuesday.
On June 26 last year, the trial court issued summons to the Congress leaders on Swamy's complaint about "cheating" in the acquisition of Associated Journals Ltd. by Young India Ltd. - "a firm in which Sonia and Rahul Gandhi each own a 38 percent stake".
Meanwhile, both houses of parliament were adjourned on Tuesday till 11.30 a.m. following ruckus by Congress parliamentarians over the National Herald case.
Minutes after the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha assembled for the day's proceedings, the Congress MPs in both the houses created a ruckus over court summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi.
The Delhi High Court had on Monday dismissed the plea of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to quash a trial court's summons to them in the National Herald case.
The Congress termed it "petty vendetta politics of the BJP".
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