Jaipur: Delhi High Court on Friday adjourned to April 24 the hearing of a petition filed by Lokesh Sharma, OSD to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him in the phone-tapping case.
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had lodged a case against Sharma after the latter allegedly made viral an audio clip containing parts of a conversation between one Gajendra Singh and a middleman purportedly about horse-trading of Congress MLAs during the political crisis in Rajasthan in 2020. Congress alleged that the purported conversation was between the Union minister and the middleman.
Hearing on the case began in the HC in the afternoon, and it was adjourned following a request by Sharma’s counsel due to strong objections to the submissions made by the opposite side. Sources said the judge hearing the case called this adjournment the last in this case. The relief from arrest granted to Sharma will continue till the next hearing on April 24. Sharma was grilled by Delhi Police in connection with the case for almost nine hours on March 20. Shekhawat had said in his complaint that his telephonic conversation was illegally intercepted by Sharma and unknown officials in the home department and circulated to media “to achieve unlawful aims and cause injury to the reputation and mental peace of the complainant.”
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had lodged a case against Sharma after the latter allegedly made viral an audio clip containing parts of a conversation between one Gajendra Singh and a middleman purportedly about horse-trading of Congress MLAs during the political crisis in Rajasthan in 2020. Congress alleged that the purported conversation was between the Union minister and the middleman.
Hearing on the case began in the HC in the afternoon, and it was adjourned following a request by Sharma’s counsel due to strong objections to the submissions made by the opposite side. Sources said the judge hearing the case called this adjournment the last in this case. The relief from arrest granted to Sharma will continue till the next hearing on April 24. Sharma was grilled by Delhi Police in connection with the case for almost nine hours on March 20. Shekhawat had said in his complaint that his telephonic conversation was illegally intercepted by Sharma and unknown officials in the home department and circulated to media “to achieve unlawful aims and cause injury to the reputation and mental peace of the complainant.”
