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Mahua Moitra Moves Delhi HC Against Lokpal’s Sanction Order In Cash-For-Query Case | India News

Mahua Moitra Moves Delhi HC Against Lokpal’s Sanction Order In Cash-For-Query Case | India News

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Last Updated:November 17, 2025, 22:42 IST Mahua Moitra challenges Lokpal order in Delhi High Court after it allowed CBI to file chargesheet in cash-for-query case involving Darshan Hiranandani. TMC MP Mahua Moitra. (File) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has approached the Delhi High Court challenging the Lokpal order that allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a chargesheet against her within a month in the alleged cash-for-query case. In a November 12 full-bench decision, Lokpal invoked its powers and approved the sanction under relevant sections of the Lokpal Act for the CBI to prosecute Moitra and others. The authority asked the probe agency to file the chargesheet in court within four weeks, and also to submit a copy to the Lokpal, news agency ANI reported. The Krishnanager MP, in its petition, said that the Lokpal’s approval, communicated through a letter dated November 14, was granted without considering her defence, despite the fact that she had been asked to submit written comments and present oral arguments on the CBI’s investigation report. She alleged that …

Trinamool’s Mahua Moitra Faces Royal Test In Krishnanagar Lok Sabha Seat

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Mahua Moita won Bengal’s Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 election (File). New Delhi: Trinamool leader Mahua Moitra must overcome the challenge of Bharatiya Janata Party debutant Amrita Roy, the matriarch of a local royal family, if she is to win back the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat from which she was so controversially expelled last year.  Rajmata (or Queen Mother) Amrita Roy was named Sunday in the BJP’s fifth list, which included quite a few surprises; actors Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil will contest Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi and Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, while Varun Gandhi has been dropped from UP’s Pilibhit. Mahua Moitra, 49, eased to victory in Krishnanagar in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, picking up 45 per cent of the votes to finish over 60,000 ahead of the BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey.  Since then, the former investment banker has grown into one of the BJP’s fiercest critics, with impassioned speeches in Parliament, backed up by sharply worded jabs on social media, earning her run-ins with union ministers, saffron party leaders, and right-wing trolls. Krishnanagar has been …

Businessman Darshan Hiranandani ‘accused’ along with Mahua Moitra in CBI’s ‘cash-for-query’ FIR | India News

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The FIR registered by CBI Thursday against former TMC MP Mahua Moitra in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case also mentions businessman Darshan Hiranandani as an “accused”. On Saturday, multiple teams of the CBI had conducted searches at various premises linked to Moitra, across different locations in West Bengal. Moitra has been accused of accepting cash to ask questions on behalf of businessman and friend Hiranandani. In an interview to The Indian Express on October 27, Moitra admitted she gave her Parliament login and password details to Hiranandani but denied taking any cash from him, as alleged by Supreme Court advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai in his complaint to the CBI. The CBI FIR, lodged two days after the Lokpal ordered a formal investigation in the case, states, “In compliance of the order dated March 19, a regular case is registered against Moitra, the then Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Hiranandani, private person and unknown others…Under IPC Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and several Sections of 7, 8 & 12 of PoC Act and substantive offences thereof, …