Overview

• Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi called the allegations “strange” and “unprecedented,” noting that Associated Journals Limited’s properties have never changed hands.
• Singhvi pointed to an 11-year gap between AJL’s 2010 debt restructuring and the ED’s 2021 case registration and an eight-year lapse since the private complaint to question the probe’s timing.
• R. S. Cheema told Special Judge Vishal Gogne that the ss CommittCongress Committee sought only to revive a freedom-era publisher under its not-for-profit memorandum, not to monetise its assets.
• The defense contended that absence of an FIR and reliance on a private complaint leave the Enforcement Directorate without proper jurisdiction.
• Hearings on cognisance at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court are ongoing as the defense completes its substantive rebuttal of the chargesheet.