Trinamool Congress chief Mahua Moitra has filed a petition within the Delhi Excessive Courts in search of instructions to restrain 19 media homes from publishing and circulating any unverified, unconfirmed, false, or derogatory content material in reference to the investigation pending in opposition to her beneath the International Trade Administration Act, 1999 (FEMA).
Moitra has additional stated within the petition that information reporting and publication in opposition to her must be inline with official press releases that could be issued by ED. She has additionally requested the court docket to restrain media from taking part in up any info associated to the continued FEMA investigation.
Moitra has additionally prayed in her petition to cease the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from giving out any “confidential or unverified info” to the media in relation to the pending investigation. The previous MP has alleged that the ED needs her to undergo media-trial which is able to heave extreme penalties to the continued investigation and her repute.
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Moitra has named distinguished media homes and newspapers in her petition.
A bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad will hear the matter as we speak.
In December 2023, Moitra misplaced her Membership of Lok Sabha following an enquiry by the Ethics committee that discovered her responsible of taking money for elevating queries within the Parliament.