"Serious Misdemeanours Call For...": What Ethics Report On Mahua Moitra Says
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Further action against Ms Moitra has been referred to investigative agencies with the technical expertise to probe the "money trail", with the committee recommending a "time-bound" inquiry.
Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra accepted gifts, like the use of a car, and such "serious misdemeanours... call for severe punishment", the Ethics Committee said Friday in its report into allegations Ms Moitra took bribes, including Rs 2 crore in cash from businessman Darshan Hiranandani, to ask questions critical of the Narendra Modi government in Parliament.
The report said "allegations of accepting illegal gratification (are) clearly established and are undeniable". It declares "taking gifts from (a) businessman to whom she handed over log-in (details) amounts to a quid pro quo... (which is) unbecoming of an MP and is unethical conduct".
The Ethics Committee, therefore, said it "recommend(s) that Smt Mahua Moitra, MP, may be expelled from the membership of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha". It also called for "a legal institutional inquiry by the Government... in view of unethical, heinous, and criminal conduct of Smt Moitra..."
