Sonia Gandhi and Rahul have been summoned by a magistrate court of Delhi's Patiala House court on August 7 in the National Herald case.

The Court was acting on the petition filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, accusing Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi of taking over the newspaper publishing company by floating a new private company using Congress funds.

National Herald newspaper publishing company The Associated Journal Ltd, established in 1930s, was taken over by a newly-floated company Young Indian in 2010.

The new company was a private firm where Sonia and Rahul had 38 per cent shares each and Congress gave `90 crore to the private company for taking over the public company, which published the National Herald newspaper.

Political parties are forbidden from transferring money to companies. When the controversy erupted, the Congress admitted that the incident claiming the payment was done to revive the party's organ, as it was an "emotionally attached matter'.