Phone tap case: Delhi High Court grants relief to CM’s aide

Granting relief to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Lokesh Sharma, the Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed any coercive action by Delhi Police against Sharma, until further orders, in the phone tapping case.

Sharma had approached the Delhi HC seeking quashing of the FIR against him, which was lodged in March this year on a complaint by Rajasthan MP and Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. In his complaint against Sharma, Singh had accused Sharma and others of criminal conspiracy and “unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals (telephonic conversation).”

The matter pertains to call recordings involving one alleged “Gajendra Singh” and others, which were leaked in mid-2020 and led to a political crisis in Rajasthan,