Phone-tapping case: Delhi HC prohibits Delhi Police from proceeding against Rajasthan CM’s OSD

Granting relief to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Lokesh Sharma, the Delhi High Court on Thursday prohibited the Delhi Police from taking any action against Sharma until further orders.

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, 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,