New Delhi: The Directorate of Estates (DoE) on Wednesday (January 17) issued a fresh notice to former Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra – who was expelled from the Lok Sabha last month – asking her to vacate her government bungalow, Deccan Herald reported citing sources in the Union housing and urban affairs ministry.The latest notice from the government comes on the day when, according to NDTV, Moitra decided to approach the Delhi high court regarding an earlier notice ordering her to vacate her official bungalow earlier this month. Moitra is reportedly currently recovering from a major surgery at home.She was also served an eviction notice by the DoE on Tuesday (January 16), PTI reported.A source told PTI on Tuesday: “Since the eviction notice was issued to her [Moitra] on Tuesday, a team of officials from the directorate of estates will now be sent to ensure that the government bungalow is vacated at the earliest.”The Trinamool leader was earlier asked to vacate the bungalow by January 7 after she was suspended from parliament.On January 8, the DoE had issued a notice seeking her reply within three days as to why she had not vacated her government accommodation.Another notice was issued to her on January 12, PTI reported.Moitra’s lawyers seek to challenge the notice on the grounds that she is her party’s candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. According to her lawyers, MPs are allowed to keep their homes from the last day of a parliament session before a general election to the day of results.Since Moitra has been named as a candidate, the lawyers argue that this should apply to her as well, NDTV reported.When she had approached the Delhi high court earlier on January 4, the court had asked the former MP to approach the DoE requesting it to allow her to continue occupying the government accommodation allotted to her, PTI reported.Justice Subramoniun Prasad at that time had noted that the rules permitted the authorities to allow a resident to overstay for up to six months by paying certain charges in exceptional circumstances, its report also said.Without going into the merits of her case, the court had then instructed Moitra to withdraw her petition.It had instead ordered the DoE to decide her case after applying its own mind, whilst adding that the law ensures the issuing of notice to a resident before eviction. It also underlined that the government had to take steps to evict the petitioner as per law.