By Tanmay 
Shocking documents expose the Dharmendra Pradhan daughter phone bill of ₹68,424 paid by Petronet LNG in 2017 for Naimisha Pradhan’s international SIM during a foreign trip. Full evidence inside.
New Delhi: Dharmendra Pradhan daughter phone bill documents from 2017 have resurfaced, showing that Petronet LNG Limited paid ₹68,424 for an international SIM used by his daughter Naimisha Pradhan during a short foreign trip. The episode occurred while Pradhan served as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Dharmendra Pradhan Daughter Phone Bill: What the Documents Show
Internal records of Petronet LNG Limited, dated 12 February 2018, confirm the payment. A request originated from the Officer (Coordination) in the office of the Hon’ble MoS, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The request sought Matrix international voice and data cards on an urgent basis at the airport for the minister’s office.
Matrix Cellular International Services issued invoices covering the period 16–25 August 2017. One invoice listed usage charges of more than ₹53,000. The combined total, including GST, stood at ₹68,424.33. The user name on the detailed Matrix invoice was Namisha Pradhan (also spelled Naimisha Pradhan). The bills were processed under Petronet’s foreign travel expense account (GL A/c No. 504530).
Approval Process and Internal Note
The proposal moved through several layers of approval inside Petronet LNG. A senior vice-president added a handwritten remark: the expenditure “may be approved on post-facto basis. However, efforts be taken to reduce such activities.” This note indicates that company officials recognised the unusual nature of the payment yet cleared it.
Petronet LNG is a joint-venture company in which four public-sector undertakings—ONGC, Indian Oil Corporation, GAIL and BPCL—each hold 12.5 percent equity, giving government-linked entities a combined 50 percent stake. Expenditure by the company therefore draws on resources linked to public funds.
Background and Earlier Scrutiny
The Dharmendra Pradhan daughter phone bill matter first became public years ago. Contemporary reports stated that the Allahabad High Court took note of the irregularity and directed an inquiry by the Central Vigilance Commission. No detailed public outcome of that inquiry has been widely reported.
Naimisha Pradhan later completed an LLM degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 2023. She has worked with policy organisations, including the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. Family photographs of Dharmendra Pradhan with his daughter have circulated alongside the documents.
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Why the Issue Has Returned
The 2017–18 documents have reappeared amid broader political debate surrounding the Education Ministry. Critics argue that routing a family member’s personal international roaming charges through a government-linked company raises questions of propriety. The internal instruction to reduce such activities remains one of the most frequently cited lines in the file.
Primary source material includes the Petronet LNG internal note, the Matrix Cellular invoices naming Namisha Pradhan, the tabulated amounts of ₹62,928.56 and ₹5,495.77, and the chain of official signatures. These match the papers reported by independent outlets. Congress leader Supriya Shrinate publicly referred to the same file in 2026.
Further reading is available in NewsGram’s report on the documents and the official Petronet LNG shareholding information. A neutral profile of the former petroleum minister appears on Wikipedia.
The Dharmendra Pradhan daughter phone bill file presents a clear paper trail from ministry request to company payment. Whether the matter warrants renewed institutional examination is for the competent authorities to decide. The documentary record itself is no longer in dispute.
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