Ashok Gehlot’s former OSD was final summoned in October final 12 months in telephone tapping case.
Jaipur:
The crime department of Delhi Police has once more summoned former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD Lokesh Sharma for interrogation in reference to a telephone tapping case registered by Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
The interrogation this time may very well be a reason for concern for Ashok Gehlot as his former officer on particular responsibility (OSD) has publicly alleged that the clip of an alleged phone dialog between Mr Shekhawat and a few Congress leaders on “toppling” the then Congress authorities in 2020 was given to him by Gehlot himself.
Mr Sharma’s declare marked a shift from his earlier stand that he had obtained three clips from social media and forwarded these to information organisations.
After this public disclosure, it’s for the primary time that the Delhi Police has summoned him. He was final summoned in October final 12 months, when the Congress was in energy within the state.
A crew of the crime department arrived in Jaipur and served the discover to Mr Sharma on Sunday, directing him to seem earlier than the department at 11 am on September 25.
Earlier, the department had been sending him notices by way of electronic mail.
Mr Sharma confirmed that he has acquired the discover and can be showing to affix the investigation on the mentioned date and time.
“I can be showing earlier than the crime department as directed within the discover,” he mentioned.
After voting for two-phase Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan was over in April this 12 months, Mr Sharma had accused Gehlot of hatching a conspiracy to tarnish the picture of his then deputy Sachin Pilot and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, retaining telephones of Pilot and different Congress leaders on surveillance, being concerned within the REET paper leak and retaining the occasion excessive command in the dead of night.
The previous OSD had mentioned that he could be giving the proof that he possessed relating to his declare to the investigating company if sought.
Nevertheless, Mr Gehlot had refused the allegations.
The phone-tapping controversy erupted in July 2020 throughout a political disaster when the Congress was operating the Rajasthan authorities.
Clips of alleged telephonic conversations between Mr Shekhawat and Congress leaders surfaced amid a revolt towards Ashok Gehlot by Pilot and 18 occasion MLAs supporting him.
Mr Sharma had circulated the clips purportedly containing conversations about “toppling” the Congress authorities.
In March 2021, the Delhi Police registered an FIR towards Mr Sharma on expenses of felony conspiracy, felony breach of belief and unlawfully intercepting telephonic conversations on a grievance by Mr Shekhawat.
Mr Sharma has appeared earlier than the crime department for questioning 5 occasions with the final questioning being on October 10 final 12 months.
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