The Delhi High Court has reserved its verdict in Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra’s plea for interim relief against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey and Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey and Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai alleged that for asking questions in Parliament, the TMC leader Mahua Moitra accepted bribes from businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
The bench of Justice Sachin Datta questioned MP Nishikant Dubey(BJP) and Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai if there was more to it, like any quid pro quo between Moitra and businessman Hiranandani.
The Court was hearing a defamation suit by Moitra against Dubey and Dehadrai.
Dubey and Dehadrai had claimed that Moitra accepted bribes to ask questions in Parliament.
The BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote a letter 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 Dehadrai, who had filed complain 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 TMC leader Moitra.
The TMC MP had refused all the allegations and said that the allegations are false and designed to curry political mileage and to extract a personal vendetta against her.