Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD arrested by Delhi Police in 2021 phone tapping case

The improvement comes days aft Sharma, connected November 14, withdrew his petition successful the Delhi High Court that had sought to quash the FIR. This had efficaciously lifted the enactment connected his arrest.

Following the alteration successful authorities successful Rajasthan successful December 2023, Sharma had changed his stance successful the case, and levelled allegations against Gehlot.

Ahead of the 2nd signifier voting successful Lok Sabha elections, including successful Rajasthan, Sharma had alleged that during the 2020 governmental crisis, phones of enactment rebels including Sachin Pilot and their movements were tracked astatine Gehlot’s behest. He had besides alleged that it was the past CM himself who gave him a pen thrust with audio recordings and asked him to stock it with journalists. Sharma besides shared telephone recordings of Gehlot, wherever the erstwhile CM was purportedly asking Sharma whether helium had destroyed the evidence.

After being questioned for implicit 5 hours by Delhi Police this September, Sharma had said that Gehlot should besides beryllium questioned successful transportation with the telephone tapping case, and alleged that apical officials of the authorities — the DGP, Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, the past Principal Secretary to CM — knew astir the substance portion helium had thing to bash with telephone tapping.

The aforesaid month, the Supreme Court allowed the Rajasthan authorities to retreat the suit wherein it had challenged Delhi Police’s jurisdiction to analyse the telephone tapping case.

Delhi Police officers connected Monday said the probe was not over. They confirmed that further grounds has been collected, and based connected its analysis, much arrests are imaginable successful the coming days. A elder constabulary authoritative said, “The probe is progressing steadily. We volition enactment connected immoderate factual grounds and instrumentality due enactment against those involved.”

Sharma was named successful an FIR lodged successful Delhi successful March 2021 connected the ailment of Union Minister and Rajasthan BJP person Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. In the FIR, Sharma and others person been accused of transgression conspiracy and “unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals (telephonic conversation)”.

These interceptions allegedly pertain to the 2020 leak of 3 audio clips allegedly involving 1 Gajendra Singh – alleged to beryllium the Union curate – a middleman Sanjay Jain, and past Congress MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh. This had led to a governmental situation successful Rajasthan, arsenic they were purportedly heard readying to topple the Gehlot authorities successful the state. Subsequently, Pilot, the past Deputy CM, led a rebellion of 19 Congress MLAs.