On Friday, the Supreme Court said that it found “no justification” in stopping the prosecution of Congress’ Sonia & Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
The bench said “it is not our business to get into all this” and that the court has a “very limited scope” to intervene at this stage. Lawyers representing the Congress leaders said that there can’t be public interest when allegations include cheating and criminal breach of trust. They said, “Swamy’s complaint has to be dismissed on the ground of locus since he is neither a victim nor a deceived person.” They explained that no one linked with the National Herald newspaper or the Congress party has complained.
However, the bench told the lawyers to put forward their matters at the stage of charge framing, but not at this occasion. The next trial court hearing is on 20 Feb.