The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR towards the former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP on Thursday on the directives of the Lokpal, which has instructed the company to file a report inside six months, officers mentioned.
The CBI on Saturday performed searches on the premises of former TMC MP Mahua Moitra in a number of places, together with Kolkata, in reference to the alleged cash-for-query case, officers mentioned. Teams of the central probe company reached Moitra’s residence in Kolkata and different cities early on Saturday, knowledgeable in regards to the search proceedings and began the operation, they mentioned.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR towards the former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP on Thursday on the directives of the Lokpal, which has instructed the company to file a report inside six months, they mentioned.
Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha in December for ”unethical conduct”.
The former MP has challenged her expulsion within the Supreme Court and can once more be within the hustings throughout the upcoming normal elections as a TMC candidate from the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal.
The Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, issued the instructions to the CBI after receiving the findings of its preliminary inquiry into allegations made towards Moitra by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.
Dubey, a Lok Sabha member, alleged that Moitra had requested questions within the House in change for money and presents from Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani to mount an assault on industrialist Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, amongst others.
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