Lucknow, May 14 -- : The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has sought a reply from central government agencies in the case of alleged disproportionate assets against Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.

The court directed the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), among other relevant parties, to file their responses within eight weeks.

The next hearing in the case will be on July 20. The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Zafeer Ahmed after hearing a petition filed by S. Vignesh Shishir on Thursday.

The petitioner had requested that the central government's Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the Department of Re...