New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to restrain Gandhi family controlled Associated Journals Limited (AJL) from seeking release of properties, including Herald House at ITO attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), before the PMLA Appellate Tribunal in the National Herald case.

This was after ED's lawyer additional solicitor general SV Raju urged a bench of justice Sachin Datta to pass an order for status quo before the tribunal.

The law officer contended that the trial court's December 16 order refusing to take cognisance of the agency's charge sheet was being relied upon to seek the release of properties, attached by the agency.

"I am not passing any order," justice Datta said, while fixing November 2 as ...