New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Calling it a "deserved victory" and the "strangest ever case," senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Tuesday welcomed the Rouse Avenue Court's decision to decline cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) chargesheet in the National Herald money laundering case involving Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others.

Reacting on the social media platform X, Singhvi said the trial court did not even deem it fit to take cognisance of the matter, noting that there was no movement of money or transfer of immovable property. Yet, the ED had alleged large-scale money laundering.

He pointed out that Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) is now owned by Young Indian, a not-for-profit company that cannot distribute profits, divid...