Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra has moved the Supreme Court challenging her expulsion from the Lok Sabha last week in the cash-for-query complaint.
The Lok Sabha passed a resolution to expel Moitra from the membership of the House based on the Report of the Ethics Committee. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had written to the Lok Sabha Speaker stating how Moitra had put forth questions in Parliament on behalf of 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 complaint by Dubey finds its roots from a letter he received from Jai Dehadrai, who had filed a complaint 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 expelled 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.