Mahua Moitra’s estranged partner alleges snooping, says calls recorded with help from West Bengal police

Mahua Moitra’s estranged partner alleges snooping, says calls recorded with help from West Bengal police

After the cash-for-query row that was levelled by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra’s estranged partner, Supreme Court advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai has levelled fresh charges of alleged “snooping” against her, reported ANI.

Dehadrai said that he has filed a complaint with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), adding that he “will not back down”.

“This fight is a bit dangerous but I will not back down,” he added.

The Supreme Court lawyer alleged that Moitra was carrying out “illegal surveillance on him”. This was being done with the assistance of her contacts in West Bengal police, he alleged.

In a letter written to CBI Director Praveen Sood and Union Home Minister Amit Shah dated December 29, Advocate Dehadrai said that there might be a possibility that the TMC leader is “tracking” his physical location by using his phone number.

In the letter, he further alleged that Moitra has a “demonstrated history of misusing her clout and connections” with certain Senior Officers of Bengal Police to obtain the Call Detail Records (CDR) of private individuals to satisfy her desire to stalk the precise whereabouts of certain individuals as also the details of the individuals they are in touch with.”

He also alleged that Moitra was “actively tracking” a person named “Suhaan Mukerji in 2019”.

“Moitra informed me orally on multiple occasions in the past as also in writing (on WhatsApp on 26.09.2019) that she had been actively tracking her ex-boyfriend, one Suhaan Mukerji as she suspected him of being in a relationship with a German lady,” the letter read.

He further alleged that Moitra, with the help of “senior” West Bengal police officers, had access to Mukerji’s call records as well his precise location for “all hours of the day”.

Dehadrai said that he has been threatened on multiple occasions in the past by her, and several times he felt that his car was being followed outside his Delhi residence.

Mahua Moitra expelled from Lok Sabha in cash-for-query row

During the Winter Session of the Parliament, the Lok Sabha expelled the Krishnanagar MP on December 8, after adopting the report of its Ethics Committee that found her “guilty of unethical conduct” into the cash-for-query allegations against her.

Following her expulsion, Moitra speaking to reporters outside the House, said that the expulsion was done by a “kangaroo court” and added that a parliamentary panel was being “weaponised” by the government to “force the Opposition into submission”.

Moitra was accused of accepting cash and other benefits to ask questions on behalf of businessman and CEO of Hiranandani group – Darshan Hiranandani. Although she had admitted, in an interview to the Indian Express, that she provided her Parliament login and password details to Hiranandani, whom she referred to as a “friend”, the TMC leader denied taking any cash from him, as was alleged by Dehadrai, in his complaint to the CBI.