New Delhi, May 2 -- Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were on Friday issued notices by a Delhi court in the National Herald money laundering case.

Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul are majority shareholders of Young Indian with 38 per cent shares held by each one of them. They were questioned for hours by the ED in this case a few years ago.

Their "right to be heard" was available at the time of cognisance of the chargesheet, said Special judge Vishal Gogne.

"Right to be heard at any stage breaths life into fair trial," the judge said, posting the matter on May 8.

The ED investigation began in 2021 after a metropolitan magistrate in Patiala House courts in Delhi took cognisance of a private complaint filed by BJP leader Su...