The hearing of the controversial National Herald case on Monday was postponed to November 6 due to the non- availability of Justice Sunil Gaur. The complainant Subramanian Swamy was supposed to start arguments after the two-day-long arguments of Congress leaders — including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
According to the registry officials, Justice Gaur had taken leave for two days due to “health reasons.” The High Court will be on Dussehra holidays from Wednesday and open on October 28. Due to the convenience of all high profile advocates engaged in the politically sensitive case, the case was thus posted to November 6.
Earlier, Sonia and Rahul had demanded the change of judge in the case. After Justice Gaur was shifted from the case in mid-September, it was allotted to Justice PS Teji. He started hearing the case from October 8 and posted it for further hearing on October 15, rejecting Kapil Sibal’s demand to shift the case to November.
On October 14, the Congress leaders filed the petition for shifting back the case to Justice Gaur. Before hearing the petition, the High Court had returned the case back to Justice Gaur. He started final hearing in the case on October 15 and 16 and posted it for October 19. Congress leaders’ advocates Sibal, Abhishek Sinhgvi, Harin Raval, RS Cheema and Ramesh Gupta have completed their arguments.