Lokesh Sharma, the OSD to the Rajasthan chief minister, on Monday appeared before Delhi Police for questioning in connection with a phone-tapping case stemming from the July 2020 political crisis in the state, officials said.바카라 웹사이트
Sharma appeared before the city police's Crime Branch unit on Monday, a senior officer said.바카라 웹사이트The Delhi Police had served a notice on Sharma -- the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot -- asking him to appear for questioning in the case.바카라 웹사이트
The notice was issued days before Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear the Crime Branch's application seeking vacating of an interim order staying coercive action against Sharma. Hearing on the Crime Branch application and a petition by Sharma seeking quashing of the FIR against him is scheduled for February 20.
On March 25, 2021, the Delhi Police registered an FIR against Sharma for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals (telephonic conversation) on a complaint lodged by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the BJP MP from Jodhpur.
According to sources, this is the sixth notice to Sharma under Section 41.1 (A) of the CrPC.바카라 웹사이트Sharma has appeared for questioning twice -- on December 6, 2021, and May 14, 2022 -- and submitted reasons for not being able to appear on three other dates.
The phone-tapping controversy dates to the July 2020 political crisis in Congress-ruled Rajasthan.바카라 웹사이트Audio clips of alleged telephonic conversations between Shekhawat and Congress leaders surfaced amid a rebellion against Gehlot by his then-deputy Sachin Pilot and 18 party MLAs supporting him.바카라 웹사이트
It was claimed that Sharma circulated the purported clips about an alleged conspiracy to topple the Congress government.바카라 웹사이트Sharma has dismissed the allegations.
