Team News Riveting
New Delhi, June 13
After quizzing Rahul Gandhi for over 10 hours on Monday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked the Congress leader to appear before it again on Tuesday.
The economic intelligence agency is probing a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. Rahul Gandhi, who entered the headquarters of the federal agency in central Delhi around 11.10 am today, was put to questioning about 20 minutes later after he finished some brief legal proceedings and marked his attendance.
The ED allowed him to leave for lunch around 2.10 pm and he returned for the second round of questioning around 3.30 pm, officials said. During the interval, Rahul Gandhi went to see his mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been hospitalised in Ganga Ram hospital following COVID related complications.
The probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. The National Herald is published by the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited.
Earlier, the Congress leaders walked in the blistering summer heat and raised slogans of solidarity with Rahul Gandhi as they defied police restrictions to joined their party leader when he headed to the Enforcement Directorate office located at the APJ Abdul Kalam Road. Several workers were detained in the morning when they were on their way to join the ‘Satyagraha march’ called by the party.
The Congress on Monday alleged that the Delhi police made a “murderous attack” on party General Secretary K C Venugopal and others during their protest march taken out in solidarity with Rahul Gandhi, with P Chidambaram and Pramod Tiwari sustaining hairline fractures in their ribs.
