The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case against Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra in cash for query matter.
Earlier, the CBI filed a case against the former MP in the cash-for-query case. The CBI action came on the direction of anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal, who issued the directions after receiving findings of the agency’s preliminary inquiry into allegations made by BJP Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey against Moitra.
The Lokpal had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to submit its findings in six months before it after investigating all aspects of the complaints against her in the matter. Lok Sabha had expelled Moitra in December last year for “unethical conduct”.
On Thursday, Moitra campaigned in her Krishnanagar constituency of West Bengal, while missing the Enforcement Directorate summons that asked her to appear for questioning at the ED office in New Delhi. The probe agency had issued fresh summons to Moitra and Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani for questioning in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case.
The TMC leader, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha in December for “unethical conduct”, has been renominated by her party from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
While hitting out at the BJP-led government at the Centre, the TMC on Wednesday said the ED summons to party’s Krishnanagar candidate was part of “vendetta politics” and a desperate manoeuvre to “misuse” agencies ahead of the elections.
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