Cash For Query Scam: CBI Raids Multiple Premises Linked to Mahua Moitra

New Delhi: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) is conducting raids at premises linked to expelled Lok Sabha TMC MP Mahua Moitra.

According to Republic's sources, the searches are being carried out at Moitra's residences and other places in Kolkata and other places in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case, PTI reported. 

This This comes days after Lokpal ordered the CBI probe in the cash-for-query case, and is the first time, searches are being carried out in the case. 

The CBI filed an FIR against the former TMC MP on Thursday on the directives of the Lokpal, which directed the agency to file a report within 6 months, as per officials.

Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha in December for "unethical conduct."

The former MP has challenged her expulsion in the Supreme Court of India and will again be in the hustings during the upcoming general elections, TMC fielded her from the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal.

The Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, issued the directions to the CBI after receiving the findings of its preliminary inquiry into allegations made against Moitra by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey.

Dubey, a Lok Sabha member, alleged that Moitra had asked questions in the House in exchange for money and other gifts from Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani to mount an attack on industrialist Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among others.