New Delhi ~ The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said it would hear on November 21 a plea by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra challenging a Lokpal order granting sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a chargesheet against her in the alleged cash-for-query scam.

A bench of Justices Anil Khetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar listed the matter for Friday to enable it to go through the Lokpal’s order, which has been placed before it in a sealed cover.

The cash-for-query scam pertains to the allegation that Moitra had asked questions in the House in exchange for cash and gifts from a businessman.

Moitra, in her plea, has sought the setting aside of the November 12 order of the Lokpal of India by which sanction was granted to the CBI, claiming that it was erroneous, dehors

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