Mahua Moitra withdraws petition against eviction as she has already vacated government bungalow

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 2

The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed expelled Lok Sabha MP and TMC leader Mahua Moitra to withdraw her petition challenging the eviction notice issued by the Directorate of Estates asking her to vacate the government bungalow allotted to her as she had already vacated it.

“Petitioner is already stated to have vacated the accommodation in question. Petition is dismissed as withdrawn,” Justice Sachin Datta said after Moitra’s counsel said the petition had become infructuous in view of the fact that she had already moved out of the premises.

Moitra vacated the government accommodation on January 19, a day after the high court refused to grant her any interim relief and dismissed her plea seeking to restrain the authorities from evicting her from the government bungalow on cancellation of her allotment following her expulsion, on medical grounds.

The TMC leader had said she was a single woman undergoing treatment at a hospital here and was ready to pay any amount of charges.

The high court, however, said the issue of expulsion of petitioner was pending before the Supreme Court and the issue of extension of time to vacate the government accommodation was inextricably linked with that and as on date, she “has no right”.

The Directorate of Estates had issued notice to Moitra on January 16 asking her to vacate the bungalow immediately.

Following her expulsion from the Lok Sabha on December 8 last year her allotment of government accommodation was cancelled and Moitra was asked to vacate the bungalow by January 7.

She was indicted for “unethical conduct” and expelled from the Lok Sabha for allegedly accepting gifts and other favours from businessman Darshan Hiranandani in return for asking questions targeting his business rival Gautam Adani.

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