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

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, …