Jai Anant Dehadrai, a Supreme Court lawyer, has accused Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra of filing a civil suit in Saket District Court for joint custody of his Rottweiler, Henry, following her loss in the Delhi High Court.
Dehadrai alleges Moitra coerced a senior Delhi Police officer to pressure him into signing over Henry’s ownership, threatening a fake FIR if he refused.
He claims Moitra’s legal team, including a prominent Senior Counsel, attempted to intimidate him into withdrawing a CBI complaint against her by invoking a high-ranking judicial figure, an incident he reported to the then-Chief Justice of India.
The CBI complaint stems from 2023 allegations that Moitra accepted cash and gifts from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask specific parliamentary questions, a case still under investigation.
Dehadrai plans to submit phone recordings and text messages as evidence in court, aiming to expose Moitra’s alleged misuse of power.
Dehadrai questioned Moitra’s mental stability and called out her media allies, including journalists Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt, to address the controversy.
“The hypocrisy is startling – she wants secrecy in her dog-custody case while filing PIL’s in Supreme Court asking for all kinds of disclosures. Is this the behaviour of a mentally stable person?”, Anant Dehadrai said in his tweet.
My heartfelt sympathies to Ms. Mahua Moitra and the psychological turmoil she seems to be in.
She needs help.
In what can only be described as a desperate cry for attention, after her humiliating loss in the Hon’ble Delhi High Court, Mahua has now filed a Civil Suit against me…
— Jai Anant Dehadrai (@jai_a_dehadrai) April 5, 2025
The feud over Henry began in 2023, with both parties accusing each other of stealing the dog, amid a broader political and legal conflict involving Moitra’s parliamentary conduct.
Moitra, previously expelled from Lok Sabha in 2023 over the cash-for-query scandal, has denied the bribery allegations but admitted to sharing her parliamentary login with Hiranandani.
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