Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of trying to create an “archive for ulterior motives” by seeking documents from the party and Associated Journals ltd (AJl) in the National Herald case. The Congress top brass made the submission before the trial court, alleging that Swamy was seeking “fishing and roving enquiry” and wanting to make out a “new case” against them by taking recourse to a “fishing” probe in the matter. They sought a dismissal of his application seeking documents.
Swamy told Metropolitan Magistrate lovleen, “I am not going to get National Herald if I win the case as all these are public properties.” He was responding to the over an hour long arguments of Congress leaders, represented by battery of lawyers led by RS Cheema. After Swamy’s brief reply the next hearing was posted to November 4.
He said he would file a detailed reply to the claim of the “accused” and sought time from the court. Apart from Cheema, senior lawyers Ramesh Gupta and Rabeca John represented the Congress leaders.
They also opposed Swamy’s plea seeking summoning of Income Tax records from the Congress and AJl, saying these entities were not accused and hence their records cannot and should not be disclosed for maintaining their confidentiality