India, July 27 -- The Delhi high court on Monday granted three weeks to senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and others to respond to Enforcement Directorate (ED's) petition challenging a special court's order declining to take cognisance of its chargesheet in the National Herald money laundering case.

This was after a bench of justice Manoj Jain said that it was not possible for him to hear the matter due to heavy board.

"We can't hear this today. There are two other time-fixed matters today. The board is heavy," Justice Jain said.

As the court was adjourning the matter, senior counsel appearing for the respondents sought time to respond to the ED's petition.

ED's lawyer, solicitor gener...