Ashok Gehlot’s former advisor Lokesh Sharma had submitted a seven-page written assertion,
Jaipur:
Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD Lokesh Sharma on Thursday mentioned he has handed over proof to Delhi Police’s crime department in assist of his declare that Gehlot supplied him name recordings of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to flow into to media through the political disaster of 2020.
Mr Sharma reached the crime department workplace in New Delhi on Thursday and handed over a pen drive, laptop computer and cellphone for investigation.
Delhi Police questioned Mr Sharma on Wednesday final week in reference to a phone-tapping case lodged on a criticism by Mr Shekhawat.
Sharma had submitted a seven-page written assertion, describing the sequence of occasions on July 16, 2020 when he received the pen drive allegedly containing name recordings from the then CM for circulating them to the media.
“I’ve supplied all proof in assist of my assertion. Now Ashok Gehlot must be summoned for interrogation,” he mentioned.
Sharma, in April this 12 months, had publicly alleged that an audio clip of a purported telephonic dialog between Mr Shekhawat and a few Congress leaders on “toppling” the then Congress authorities in Rajasthan was given to him by the previous chief minister.
He claimed Ashok Gehlot had given the pen drive, containing three name recordings, “together with two purported recordings of Mr Shekhawat with Congress leaders.
“I transferred the recordings to a laptop computer and from laptop computer I transferred to my cellphone after which circulated to media via social media,” he instructed PTI.
Mr Sharma mentioned that he was not concerned within the name interceptions. “It was accomplished on the instructions of the then chief minister,” he mentioned.
The political disaster was the results of rise up by the then deputy CM Sachin Pilot and 18 different Congress leaders in opposition to Mr Gehlot’s management.
In the course of the disaster, clips of alleged telephonic conversations between Mr Shekhawat and Congress leaders surfaced following which Mr Gehlot had claimed that Mr Shekhawat was behind the try of toppling his authorities.
Mr Sharma had circulated the clips purportedly containing conversations about “toppling” the Congress authorities.
In March 2021, Delhi Police registered an FIR in opposition to Sharma on fees of prison conspiracy, prison breach of belief and unlawfully intercepting telephonic conversations on a criticism from Shekhawat.
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