New Delhi,mar 01:
Associated Journals Limited (AJL) has decided to approach the Supreme Court against Delhi High Court’s order asking them to evict the Herald House here.Nikhil Bhalla, one of the counsels in the National Herald case, told media here, “(We) had received a notice last evening and we had informed that we will be approaching the Supreme Court in the coming week. Don’t know why officials of the Land and Development Office came here today. There are no talks of vacating.”His statement came after a team of Land and Development of the Ministry of Urban Development reached Herald House to take possession on Friday.AJL is owned by Young India (YI), in which Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi are majority shareholders.On December 21 last year, the Delhi High Court’s single bench had dismissed the petition filed by the AJL, challenging the Centre’s decision to cancel its lease and vacate the Herald House.The Centre, in its eviction order passed on October 30 last year, had mentioned the violation of lease conditions by the AJL and had said that the Herald House’s 56-year-old lease to the AJL had ended.
