Jai Anant Dehadrai, a Supreme Court lawyer and estranged partner of Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra, has filed a defamation case against the expelled MP at the Delhi High Court. The case hearing will take place today.
A defamation case had been filed by former partner of Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra and a Supreme Court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai against the expelled MP at the Delhi High Court. The hearing of which will take place today.
Dehadrai has sought damages worth Rs 2 crore from Moitra for the abusive and defamatory statements that she made against Dehadrai on various media outlets and social media platforms in connection to the cash-for-query row, alleging that he was “jobless” and “jilted”.
The Supreme Court lawyer’s defamation case came weeks after the Delhi High Court had quashed Moitra’s petition seeking to restrain Dehadrai and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey from posting any “fake and defamatory” content against her in the cash-for-queries case.
The high court dismissed the petition on March 4 and observed that the TMC leader did not make a full disclosure in her complaint.
Ethics Committee found her “guilty of unethical conduct” and called for “an intense, legal, institutional inquiry” by the government into the charge. Owing to this, Moitra was expelled as a Lok Sabha MP in December 2023.
Dehadrai, Moitra’s estranged partner, has alleged that the expelled MP admitted she gave her Parliament login and password details to businessman Darshan Hiranandani but denied taking any cash from him.
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