The Delhi High Court has refused to pass any order on Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s plea to challenge the order by the Government of India for evicting her from her government allotted residence in wake of her recent expulsion from the Lok Sabha.
The Government has asked Moitra to vacate her house by January 7, 2024.
Justice Subramonium Prasad who was lokig into the matter noted that TMC leader Moitra has already challenged her expulsion from Lok Sabha before the Supreme Court by a separate plea.
The Court noted that passing of any order by the High Court can make impact on the proceedings before the Supreme Court.
Justice Prasad said that the leader has challenged the order by filing a writ petition.
The judge further added that if the Supreme Court grants a stay in favour, the suspension will be stayed but if High Court adjudicates on this, it will be directly impinging on the SC proceedings.
The Court,has now kept the matter for hearing on January 4 after noting that the top court will hear Moitra’s plea against expulsion from Lok Sabha on January 3.
Justice Prasad also refused to pass any interim order.
The Lok Sabha passed a resolution to expel Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra from the membership of the House based on the Report of the Ethics Committee over ‘cash for query’ complaint.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had written to the Lok Sabha Speaker stating how Moitra had put forth questions in Parliament on behalf of business tycoon Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for cash and gifts.
It was also claimed that these questions were related to the Adani Group which is a competitor of Hiranandani.
The complain by Dubey finds its roots from a letter he received from Jai Dehadrai, who had filed a complain to the CBI stating to have some irrefutable evidence that Moitra took bribes from Hiranandani.
As per the claim made by Dehadrai, Moitra gave complete access to her online Lok Sabha account to Hiranandani, who misused the same to post Parliamentary Questions of his liking. As per the claims, these questions consisted of 50 of the 61 questions that Moitra has asked.
A notice was earlier sent to Dubey, Dehadrai and several media organisations by Moitra. The Trinamool MP had refuted all the allegations and said that the allegations are false and designed to curry political mileage and to extract a personal vendetta against her.