New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- Terming the trial court's reasoning legally flawed and prejudicial to the prosecution, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the Delhi High Court challenging the Rouse Avenue Court's order that declined to take cognisance of its money laundering complaint in the National Herald case involving Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

In its appeal, the ED has argued that the trial court erred in holding that proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cannot be sustained in the absence of an FIR in the scheduled offence. The agency has contended that such a requirement finds no place in the statutory scheme of the PMLA and that reading it into the law amounts to rewriting the legi...