As the Delhi high court gave its nod for an income tax probe of the National Herald case, the Congress Party on Friday asserted that it is proud to be associated with the National Herald, adding that the media is misrepresenting the facts.

"We are proud to be associated with the National Herald. The media is misrepresenting facts," Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said while addressing a press conference.

Singhvi further said that the government agents and the proxies are circulating 'false facts' (sic) to the media.

"The government agents and proxies are circulating unsigned notes to media which are false facts (sic) from today's hearing," he added.

Singhvi said that the Young Indian Company has been given full liberty to object to the reopen of the case.

"We will now await the assessing officer's decision in accordance with law and, in those proceedings, will be raising all the objections that we have raised today in the writ petition, that the IT department had absolutely no reason to believe in reopening the assessment," said Singhvi.

He said all jurisdictional questions raised in the writ petition were kept alive and allowed to be raised by the party before the assessing officer. -- ANI