The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has summoned Lokesh Sharma, the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot within the cellphone tapping case.
Sharma has been requested by the Delhi Police to seem in its workplace on July 24 at 11 am in reference to the FIR lodged by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on March 25 this 12 months, by which Sharma is an accused. Shekhawat, in his criticism, had accused Sharma and others of felony conspiracy and “unlawfully obstructing telegraphic signals (telephonic conversations).”
when contacted by Indian ExpressSharma confirmed that he acquired the discover on Wednesday.
However, Sharma is unlikely to go for questioning because the matter is being heard by the Delhi High Court, the place he had prayed for quashing of the FIR.
Earlier, on June 3, the courtroom had stayed any coercive motion by the Delhi Police towards Sharma until additional orders. The subsequent listening to within the matter is on August 6.
Last month, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police additionally issued summons to Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi asking him to seem on June 24. He dropped the summons citing a number of causes together with the continuing case within the High Court. Joshi termed it as “political malice, undue pressure” and “challenged” Shekhawat to provide his voice samples within the case.
The summons to Sharma, his first within the case, comes days after a Jaipur courtroom directed a subordinate courtroom to take voice samples of Shekhawat and alleged intermediary Sanjay Jain, which was additionally probed by the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau. goes. (ACB) from final 12 months. During the listening to within the case registered by Shekhawat in Delhi, the High Court had requested why the FIR shouldn’t be transferred to Rajasthan, saying that because the total incident happened in Rajasthan, why is the investigation of a single FIR in Delhi.
Last 12 months, a political disaster in Rajasthan was triggered by the leak of audio tapes purportedly involving one Gajendra Singh, Sanjay Jain, in addition to Congress MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, by which the then Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot led 19 Congress rebellions. had led. Legislator. Of these, Bar Vishvendra Singh, Joshi had named the opposite three of their criticism to the ACB final 12 months.
Following the Indian Express report in March, which mentioned the federal government had admitted that telephones have been tapped in the course of the political disaster final 12 months, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal, throughout a debate within the Assembly, just about admitted that The clips have been shared by Sharma.
Defending the CM’s OSD, he had mentioned, ‘If Lokesh Sharma finds one thing and forwards it on WhatsApp group, what sin has he dedicated? You do not too? And why should not he ship it?… You say he made it viral, why should not he make it viral? You say that Lokesh Sharma made the clipping. give proof.”
Just a few days later, Shekhawat lodged an FIR towards Sharma in Delhi.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
