Three weeks after writing to the Delhi Police commissioner claiming that he anticipated a threat to his life, the Supreme Court lawyer who had alleged that Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra had accepted bribes from a businessman to ask questions in parliament, has now written to the police and accused her of trespassing and intimidating his staff.
Lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai, whom Ms Moitra has called a “jilted ex”, had written to the CBI and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey claiming that the Trinamool MP had taken bribes from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament. These complaints led to the current Lok Sabha Ethics Committee probe against Ms Moitra.
In his letter to the station house officer of the Hauz Khas police station on Tuesday, Mr Dehadrai said that Ms Moitra had gone to his house unannounced on November 5 and 6, days after she appeared before the ethics committee.
“Given her past history of filing fraudulent criminal complaints against me (24.03.2023 and 23.09.2023) and falsely alleging offences such as trespass, and criminal intimidation, and thereafter withdrawing the same in writing (on 04.10.2023), it is a grave cause for concern to me. There is every possibility that Smt. Moitra might intentionally come to my residential premises with the sole objective of filing further fraudulent complaints against me,” Mr Dehadrai wrote.