Lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai is recording his statement before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee, in the first meeting on the cash-for-query charge against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey will also record his statement today.

Mr Dubey is the MP who had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and levelled cash-for-query allegations against Ms Moitra. The complaint was based on a letter by Supreme Court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai, who the Trinamool MP has called her “jilted ex”. The Speaker had referred the matter to the ethics committee. 

The Lok Sabha panel is currently hearing from Mr Dehadrai.

The letter claimed to share “irrefutable evidence” of businessman Darshan Hiranandani giving bribes to Ms Moitra to ask questions in Parliament. The questions were allegedly designed to target the Adani Group.

In an affidavit, Mr Hiranandani had alleged that the Trinamool MP had shared her email ID as a Member of Parliament so that he could send her information and she could raise the questions in the Parliament. He claimed she later gave him her Parliament login and password so that he could post the questions directly.