National Herald: Delhi Court abates criminal proceedings against Moti Lal Vora
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A Delhi Court has abated criminal proceedings against Congress chief Moti Lal Vora within the National Herald case in view of his demise in December final yr.
The courtroom was listening to a non-public criminal grievance filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy against Vora, Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and others.
The courtroom handed the order after advocate Tarannum Cheema, showing for the accused, filed the unique arduous copy of the appliance for putting on document the demise certificates of Vora, and as a consequence prayed for abatement of proceedings qua him.
The courtroom issued discover to the SHO involved to file demise verification report of Vora, who submitted that the veteran Congress chief died on December 21, 2020.
“In view of the aforesaid and report filed, proceedings in the present case qua the accused Motil Lal Vora stands abated,” Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sachin Gupta stated in an order handed on January 28.
The case will proceed against different accused folks.
The courtroom will additional hear the matter on February 11.
The case is scheduled for the cross examination of the complainant, Mr. Swamy, as part of pre-charge proof.
Mr. Swamy, in a non-public criminal grievance, has accused the Gandhis and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by paying simply ₹50 lakh, by means of which the Young Indian (YI) Private Limited obtained the appropriate to recuperate the ₹90.25 crore the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the writer of National Herald newspaper, owed to the Congress.
All the seven accused within the case — Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leaders Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey, Sam Pitroda, Vora, and the YI — had denied the allegations levelled against them.
The Gandhis, Vora, Fernandes, Dubey and Pitroda have been accused of misappropriation of property, criminal breach of belief, dishonest and criminal conspiracy.
