Business Recorder
Mar 21, 2025
PRINT EDITION ►
BR MARKETS ►
Dollar to PKR ►
Home
Latest
BR Research
Markets
☰
✕
Home
Latest
BR Research
Markets
Business & Finance
World
Editorials
Opinion
MENA
Technology
Life & Style
Sports
Perspectives
Pakistan
Supplements
Print
Close the sidebar
India's Gandhis given bail in graft case
Imaduddin
19 Dec, 2015
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
Copyright Reuters, 2015
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
Read Comments
![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2015/12/000-apd563704.jpg">NEW DELHI: An Indian court granted bail to opposition leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul on Saturday in a case of involving the alleged misappropriation of party funds that has become a political flashpoint with the ruling party.</P><P>The mother-son duo made a rare appearance in a dingy Delhi courtroom to answer summons in the lawsuit brought by a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.</P><P>Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said the court granted bail to party chief Sonia and vice president Rahul without any conditions after a brief hearing.</P><P>Hundreds of members of the Congress party were massed outside the court premises in a show of support for the torchbearers of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that ruled India for more than four decades after independence in 1947.</P><P>Congress party leaders blamed Modi for unleashing a political vendetta against the mother-son duo, saying he was trying to snuff out those opposed to him since his election in 2014.</P><P>)