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The Delhi Police registered an FIR in opposition to Lokesh Sharma in March 2021 on costs of felony conspiracy. (File picture)
Sharma’s declare marks a shift from his earlier stand that he had obtained three clips from social media and forwarded these to information organisations.
Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD Lokesh Sharma on Wednesday claimed that the clip of an alleged phone dialog between Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and a few Congress leaders on “toppling” the state’s Congress authorities in 2020 was given to him by the previous chief minister.
Sharma’s declare marks a shift from his earlier stand that he had obtained three clips from social media and forwarded these to information organisations.
“I didn’t get the audio clip from social media. The then chief minister Ashok Gehlot had given me all these audio clips via this pen drive and requested me to flow into it to the media. I adopted his directions,” Sharma claimed whereas displaying a pen drive to the reporters. Gehlot, who’s campaigning for his son Vaibhav Gehlot within the Jalore Lok Sabha seat, couldn’t be contacted for feedback.
The Delhi Police registered an FIR in opposition to Sharma in March 2021 on costs of felony conspiracy, felony breach of belief and unlawfully intercepting telephonic conversations on a grievance by Shekhawat.
Sharma approached Delhi Excessive Court docket to quash the FIR. In June 2021, the excessive courtroom granted an interim keep on coercive motion in opposition to Sharma. On Wednesday, Sharma claimed that he adopted Gehlot’s directions and didn’t disclose the supply of the clips regardless of questioning by the Crime Department. He claimed he was assured full cooperation by Gehlot when a case was registered in opposition to him. Nonetheless, he was uncared for and confronted psychological torture because of the case and the questioning.
“On July 16, 2020, the then chief minister got here to Resort Fairmont the place the Congress MLAs of his camp had been staying following the political disaster. He left the lodge round 4 pm. Later, I obtained a name from Gehlot’s PSO Ramniwas that he was calling me to the chief minister’s residence,” Sharma mentioned. “After I reached, Gehlot gave me this pen drive having three audio clips and a paper with a transcript of the clips. He requested me to flow into these to the media,” he added.
Sharma mentioned he went house, transferred the audio clips to his laptop computer after which to his cell phone earlier than circulating these to the media. He additionally confirmed the laptop computer to the reporters.
The phone-tapping controversy erupted in July 2020 throughout a political disaster when the Congress was working the Rajasthan authorities. Clips of alleged telephonic conversations between Shekhawat and Congress leaders surfaced amid a insurrection in opposition to Gehlot by his then deputy Sachin Pilot and 18 get together MLAs supporting him.
Sharma had circulated the clips purportedly containing conversations about “toppling” the Congress authorities.
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