Cash-for-query case: CBI summons Jai Anant Dehadrai on January 25 for preliminary inquiry
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned Supreme Court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai to appear before the agency on January 25 for a preliminary inquiry in connection with the ongoing investigation on the cash-for-query case, sources said on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Dehadrai said that he has filed a complaint with the CBI and would not back down after he alleged that former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra was conducting surveillance against him.
Dehadrai was also the complainant in the alleged 'Cash for Query' case, which led to the suspension of Moitra from Parliament.
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.
The advocate in his letter also alleged, "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."
Advocate Dehadrai also stated in his complaint that earlier, the TMC leader 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.
Dehadrai further alleged that Moitra, with the assistance of "Senior Bengal Police Officers", had the entire call records and history of Mukerji's phone in which she had precise information about the individuals who had been "in contact with Mukerji as also the precise physical location of Mukerji's phone for all hours of the day".
The advocate also stated that Mahua Moitra has made several threats to him in the past and also said that on several occasions he felt that his car was being followed outside his residence in Delhi.
Responding to allegations made in the complaint, Mahua Moitra in her post on X, urged the Home Ministry to appoint a Special Director in the CBI for complaints by 'jilted exes' all over India.
"Urging MHA to set up a special Director CBI to probe all complaints by loser jilted exes pan India. Gratified to see Shahenshah of all Peeping Toms cc'd on the complaint. - he honed his surveillance skills covering up for his Sahib in Gujarat and can supervise CBI," she said in a post on X.
Moitra, facing cash for query allegations, was expelled from the Lok Sabha after the Parliament adopted the report of its Ethics Committee, which was probing the matter. Moitra alleged that the Ethics Committee, without getting to the root of the investigation, decided to hang her.
