India, Dec. 17 -- Hours after a Delhi court refused to take cognizance of the Enforcement Directorate(ED)'s allegations of money laundering in the National Herald case against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, the party claimed that "the conspiracy of malicious intent for political revenge" has been foiled.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday that "The continuous five-day, 50-hour interrogation was nothing but a political witch hunt, which the Congress party faced head-on. Now, with the FIR quashed, it has been proven once again that truth has prevailed, and truth will always prevail."

"When false allegations were made to defame the National Herald, the Congress party, and our leaders, I said then that if...