India, Dec. 17 -- A Delhi court on Tuesday declined to take cognisance of a charge sheet, filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the National Herald case, which names senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

The court said that it was impermissible in law to take judicial note of the charge sheet and summon the Gandhis. The court also detailed in its 117-page order that ED's case reflected a unilateral overreach of the other law enforcement agency viz. the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on one hand and "an ill-advised out-pacing of the scheme of the PMLA itself".

"Since the present prosecution complaint pertaining to the offence of money laundering is founded on cognizance and summoning order upon a complainan...