Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital on Sunday due to problems related to Kovid. As per reports, he is being examined by doctors, and his present condition is stable.
“She is stable and will be kept at the hospital for observation,” senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala has said.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to the Congress president to appear for questioning on June 23 in a money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper, officials said on Friday.
The 75-year-old Congress leader was asked to appear on June 8, but since she had tested positive for the coronavirus, she sought a fresh date from the federal probe agency.
Officials had said that the questioning of senior Congress leaders and the Gandhi family is part of the ED’s probe to understand the shareholding pattern, financial transactions and role of Young Indian and ALJ promoters.
The ED had recently registered a new case under criminal provisions of the PMLA after a trial court ordered an Income Tax Department investigation against Young Indian Pvt Ltd based on a private criminal complaint filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013. had taken notice of.
The Congress party had termed the ED’s action as ‘vendetta’.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are among the promoters and shareholders of Young Indian.
Swamy had accused Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others of conspiracy to commit fraud and misappropriate funds.
In February last year, the Delhi High Court issued notice to the Gandhi family to respond to Swamy’s plea seeking to produce evidence in the matter before the trial court.
The Gandhi family had secured separate bail from the court in 2015 after furnishing a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety.
