Rahul Gandhi leaves Enforcement Directorate’s workplace in Delhi
New Delhi:
Congress’s Rahul Gandhi was questioned for greater than ten hours yesterday in an alleged cash laundering case related to the Nationwide Herald newspaper. Sources mentioned he has been summoned once more immediately for additional questioning.
The Enforcement Directorate had summoned Rahul Gandhi and mom, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, for questioning in alleged cash laundering linked to the Nationwide Herald newspaper. The company filed the cash laundering case not too long ago after a trial court docket took be aware of a non-public criticism in opposition to Younger Indian Pvt Ltd.
The non-public complainant had levelled allegations of dishonest, conspiracy, and prison breach of belief within the purported acquisition of the Related Journals Restricted — which ran the newspaper — by Younger Indian Pvt Ltd.
The Congress has alleged that the questioning is a part of the ruling BJP’s “vendetta politics”.
Mr Gandhi’s questioning began this morning amid a police crackdown on a large Congress protest.
The Congress had deliberate protests throughout the nation outdoors the places of work of the Enforcement Directorate. In Delhi, senior leaders together with occasion MPs have been to march with Mr Gandhi from the occasion workplace to the places of work of the Enforcement Directorate.
However the Delhi Police, which had refused permission for the protest march final night, began motion early this morning, rounding up Congress employees and leaders.
With the police barricading the ED workplace, the highest leaders who accompanied Mr Gandhi sat on protest outdoors the barricade after he went in.
Shortly after, many leaders, together with P Chidambaram, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhari, KC Venugopal, Deepender Hooda and Jairam Ramesh have been detained and ferried to the police station on buses.
Movies emerged of leaders being manhandled. Mr Venugopal was seen bodily picked up and carried in direction of a ready bus. Mr Chidambaram had a fractured rib after being pushed by Delhi Police, mentioned senior chief Randeep Surjewala.
One other Congress chief, Pramod Tiwari, was thrown on the highway and he suffered a head harm, Mr Surjewala added.
Sources mentioned leaders who have been detained on the Tughlak Street police station — together with KC Venugopal, Harish Rawat, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury — have been launched.
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