Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly Ethics Committee which probed the allegation against Congress MLA Naba Das of viewing porn while Assembly was in session gave a clean chit to him.
In December 2015, Congress MLA from Jharsuguda Naba Kishore Das was suspended for seven days for watching obscene video content on his mobile phone inside the Assembly.
Notably, a local TV channel, broadcasting the Question Hour, shot Jharsuguda MLA Das watching a porn clip. However, Das had claimed that he accidentally opened an app while browsing his phone.
After a hue and cry, the Speaker had referred the allegation to the 28-member Ethics Committee, headed by Ranendra Pratap Swain and asked the panel to submit its report “at the earliest”. The panel prepared a nine-page report at a meeting held December 18, 2018.
As per the committee report, the concerned media channel failed to submit the visual showing the MLA watching porn videos on his mobile phone in the House.
The Junior Engineer (JE), who was in charge of the CCTV installed in Assembly, had produced the CCTV footage before the Ethics Committee December 15 showing no such act by the MLA.