The court would next hear the case on February 20.
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Mr Sibal said one bail application was moved on behalf of all accused and they had furnish one surety of Rs. 50,000 each.
About 150 Congress workers today burnt an effigy of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, the complainant in the National Herald case against party leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others. In the premises, 16 additional CCTV cameras have been installed, where the court hearing was held.
Senior Congress leaders Manmohan Singh, Sheila Dikshit, Ambika Soni, Meira Kumar, Kumari Sheilja, Motilal Vohra and Oscar Fernanddes had been in the court room.
While Antony gave surety to Sonia, Priyanka stood surety for her brother.
The government has been attacking Congress for seeking a “remedy from Parliament” for “something that happened during a judicial process” and has been suggesting that the main Opposition party was doing it to block the passage of key reform measures including GST, they said.
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed the case in a local court in 2012. Congress party will continue to fight for the common man, poor, farmers and labourers of this nation. In deference and great respect to the court, we all appeared through counsel and each of the accused appeared except accused number six Sam Pitroda who has a medical problem.
The Italian-born Sonia Gandhi has led the party since 1998. They have cited the cases against other Congress leaders such as Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and said these were all born out of political malice.
The Delhi High Court last week dismissed the plea of the Gandhi’s to quash the summons issued to them by a trial court.
Before its closure, the paper was run by Associated Journals Limited (AJL).
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi accused the Modi government of making false allegations against political opponents and said, “The Congress and I will not bend”.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad calling Swamy a “mask” for Modi, and said the BJP functionary has been awarded with a bungalow for dragging Congress leadership to court even though he was not a Parliamentarian or government official.
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The National Herald was founded by Jawaharlal Nehru who went on to become India’s first prime minister.
