New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday submitted two key documents—the 2014 complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR)—before a Delhi court in connection with the National Herald money laundering case against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and others.

Special Judge Vishal Gogne directed the agency to provide copies of these documents to all the proposed accused.

The matter has now been listed for September 16, when the court will hear submissions from defence counsel before deciding a date for the order on cognisance.

The ED’s counsel confirmed the filing, noting that the move followed Thursday’s closed-door hearing in which the court granted the agency more time to submit documents after listening to Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju.

Raju, who appeared via video conferencing, told the court that the agency had no objection to placing the two documents on record and supplying them to the accused, but sought to do so through a formal application. Special Public Prosecutor NK Matta was present physically.

The court noted that these documents—the complaint dated July 4, 2014, by Swamy, and the ECIR registered on June 30, 2021—were available with the ED but had not been filed along with the prosecution complaint earlier.

On July 29, the Rouse Avenue court deferred its order on cognisance of the ED’s charge sheet, seeking clarifications on certain aspects of the case file. The prosecution complaint, already filed by the ED, names Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Suman Dubey, Sam Pitroda, Sunil Bhandari, Young Indian, and Dotex Merchandise as accused.

According to the agency, Young Indian fraudulently acquired Associated Journals Limited (AJL)—which holds assets worth nearly Rs. 2,000 crore—by paying just Rs. 50 lakh to the Congress party for the right to recover a Rs. 90 crore loan that the party had earlier extended to AJL.

The court had reserved its order on July 14 after hearing detailed submissions from both sides.

In rebuttal arguments on July 12, ASG Raju insisted that Young Indian was engaged in money laundering and “continues to be involved,” asserting that sufficient material existed for the court to take cognisance of the ED’s prosecution complaint.