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The Delhi High Court connected Friday (January 23, 2026) extended by 2 months the clip fixed to the Lokpal to see according to instrumentality the contented of granting authorisation to the CBI to record a chargesheet against TMC MP Mahua Moitra successful the alleged cash-for-query scam.
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A Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, however, said nary further petition for hold of clip would beryllium entertained.
The lawyers appearing for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) person and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said they were not opposing the Lokpal's petition for hold of clip by 2 months.
"The play of disposal is extended by 2 months portion observing that nary further petition for hold of clip volition beryllium entertained," the Bench ordered.
On December 19, 2025, the High Court acceptable speech a November bid of the Lokpal granting authorisation to the CBI to record the chargesheet against Moitra and asked it to see the contented of authorisation nether Section 20 of the Lokpal Act, strictly successful accordance with provisions, wrong a play of 1 month.
In the judgment, the tribunal had said determination was a "clear departure" from the process expressly mandated nether the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, and the Lokpal had erred successful its knowing and mentation of the provisions of the Act.
The cash-for-query scam pertains to the allegation that Moitra had asked questions successful the Lok Sabha successful speech for currency and gifts from a businessman.
Ms. Moitra is simply a two-time TMC MP from Krishnanagar successful West Bengal.
The verdict came connected a plea by Moitra challenging the November 12, 2025 bid of the Lokpal granting authorisation to the CBI to record a chargesheet against her successful the alleged currency for query scam.
The CBI successful July 2025 submitted its study to the Lokpal successful transportation with the alleged cash-for-query scam lawsuit involving Ms. Moitra and businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
The bureau registered an FIR connected March 21, 2024 against the 2 nether provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act connected a notation from the Lokpal.
It was alleged that Ms. Moitra indulged successful corrupt practices, including, but not constricted to, taking bribes and different undue advantages from Mr. Hiranandani for "compromising her parliamentary privileges and causing nationalist information threats by sharing her Lok Sabha login credentials."
