Lok Sabha Ethics panel adopts report on Mahua Moitra case

In 6:4 verdict, ethics panel adopts report on Mahua Moitra case
Ethics panel chief Vinod Sonkar said that six members supported the report on the charge against TMC MP Mahua Moitra, while four members opposed it.
The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on Thursday adopted its report on 'cash-for-query' allegations against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra. 

The members on the ethics panel who supported the adoption of report are -- Aparajita Sarangi, Rajdeep Roy, Sumedhanand Saraswati, Preneet Kaur, Vinod Sonkar, Hemant Godse.  

Ms Preneet Kaur is a suspended Congress MP and wife of former Punjab Chief Capt Amarinder Singh. The former CM is now in the BJP.

Those who opposed the report are Danish Ali, V Vaithilingam, PR Natarajan, Giridhari Yadav.

The committee had earlier heard Mahua Moitra, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey who filed the complaint against her, and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai.

The draft report had recommended the disqualification of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra from Lok Sabha in view of its ongoing probe in the alleged bribe-for-query case.

Last month, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey alleged that “bribes" were given to Mahua Moitra from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to "ask questions in Parliament in exchange for cash and gifts”.

 Dubey had cited advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai's letter which mentioned "irrefutable evidence" of the alleged exchange between Moitra and Hiranandani.

Mahua Moitra has refuted all these allegations. She also sent a legal notice to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Jai Anant Dehadrai, saying that charges that she accepted "any benefit of any kind to perform her duties as a Member of Lok Sabha" were "defamatory, false, baseless, and not supported by even a shred of evidence".

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