Mahua Moitra

On December 8, the Lok Sabha received a report from the ethics committee that recommended Mahua Moitra, the MP for the Trinamool Congress, be removed in a "cash-for-query" case.

The committee headed by Vinod Kumar Sonkar, at a meeting on November 9, adopted its report recommending Moitra’s expulsion from Lok Sabha over the "cash-for-query" allegation.

The Winter session of Parliament begins on December 4 and will have 15 sittings till December 22. The report of the Lok Sabha panel recommending the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader's expulsion is listed for tabling in the House on the first day of the session.

Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury writes to Speaker on Ethics Committee's proceedings against Mahua Moitra, urging a reevaluation of parliamentary committee rules.

Six members of the panel voted in favour of the report, including Congress MP Preneet Kaur who had earlier been suspended from the party.

Moitra was accused by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey of letting a Dubai-based businessman to access her parliamentary portal in lieu of bribes, and the Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee has recommended her expulsion

On Monday, the TMC announced a revised list of district presidents for the state's 35 organisational districts. Moitra, who was the district president in Krishnanagar a few years ago before being removed in a prior reshuffle, has now been reinstated as the district president of Krishnanagar (Nadia North) organisational district.

After the meeting, Sonkar told reporters that six members of the panel supported adoption of the report and four opposed it.

The meeting for adopting the draft report means that the committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar has finished its enquiry

Moitra admitted that she shared her log-in credentials with Hiranandani but has ruled out any pecuniary motive.

Apart from politicians, Observer Researcher Foundation (ORF) president Samir Saran and two journalists too said that they had received similar notifications from Apple

The Trinamool Congress MP has now sought permission to file a fresh list of defendants with just BJP’s Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Dehadrai. The Delhi High Court had asked Dubey and Dehadrai to file a response and has posted the case for hearing on December 5

Article 105 of the constitution of India allows freedom of speech in parliament. In order to uphold the same, MPs must not be prosecuted in a court of law for what they said or how they voted in the house. The question has been considered by the Supreme Court twice – 25 years apart.

In this war of words and legal wrangling, Mahua Moitra and Jai Anant Dehadrai have accused each other of stealing the Rottweiler, Henry.

The genesis of Moitra's expulsion is a complaint by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey to the speaker of lok sabha, Dubey in turn referred to a complaint by supreme court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai.

Moitra was reacting after BJP's Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey claimed she was in India when her parliamentary ID was used in Dubai and that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) had disclosed the information to probe agencies.

Gopal Shankaranarayanan withdrew from the case after Jai Dehadrai told the high court that the senior counsel had called him the previous evening and tried to mediate between him and the TMC MP

BJP's Dubey has levelled graft charges against Moitra for allegedly taking "bribes" from a businessman for raising questions in the Parliament, following which the TMC MP from Bengal's Krishnanagar sought the appointment of an "inquiry committee" to probe into the matter.

Adani Group, which had so far not made any direct attack on Moitra, in the statement referred to the complaints by Dubey and Dehadrai to say that they "corroborate" the conglomerate's previous statements that "some groups and individuals have been working overtime to harm our name, goodwill and market standing."

A BJP MP has accused the Trinamool Congress parliamentarian of raising questions in Parliament that seemed to protect Hiranandani’s business.