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Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had allowed the Rajasthan authorities to retreat the suit wherein it had challenged Delhi Police’s jurisdiction to analyse the telephone tapping lawsuit against Sharma. (Representative Image)
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has erstwhile again summoned erstwhile Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s erstwhile Officer connected Special Duty (OSD), Lokesh Sharma, for questioning successful transportation with the telephone tapping lawsuit registered by Union curate Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Importantly, this volition beryllium the archetypal clip Sharma is being summoned aft helium had publically shared his telephone conversations with the erstwhile CM. In the midst of Lok Sabha polls this year, Sharma had alleged that during the 2020 governmental situation successful the state, the phones of enactment rebels, including Sachin Pilot, and their movements were tracked astatine Gehlot’s behest. He besides alleged that it was Gehlot who passed connected recordings of telephone calls and asked him to “circulate them successful the media”, personally handing them to him.
This was a important displacement from his earlier stance wherein helium had claimed that helium received the clips from societal media and circulated them among journalists.
Playing purported audio recordings of Gehlot, helium had said that past CM had besides inquired if the telephone utilized to stock the recordings was destroyed and besides asked him to springiness distant his laptop. Sharma told reporters that though helium destroyed the phone, helium kept the laptop. He had besides accused Gehlot of not pursuing the lawsuit erstwhile the Congress enactment mislaid the Assembly polls successful December past year, leaving him to fend for himself.
In 2020, the leak of 3 audio clips allegedly involving 1 Gajendra Singh — alleged to beryllium Shekhawat — a middleman Sanjay Jain, and past Congress MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh had led to a governmental situation successful Rajasthan. In the tapes, they were allegedly heard devising a program to topple the Gehlot government. Subsequently the past Deputy CM Sachin Pilot had past led a rebellion of 19 Congress MLAs.
Months aboriginal successful 2021, the authorities authorities had virtually accepted that phones were tapped during the governmental crisis, starring to an FIR by Shekhawat against Sharma and others.
Sharma has present been served a announcement by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police which has asked him to look astatine its bureau astatine 11 americium connected September 25. Sharma confirmed that helium has received the announcement and volition beryllium appearing to articulation the probe connected the said day and time. He has already appeared earlier the Delhi Police aggregate times successful the past.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had allowed the Rajasthan authorities to retreat the suit wherein it had challenged Delhi Police’s jurisdiction to analyse the telephone tapping lawsuit against Sharma.
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