Jaipur, Jan. 7 -- Three members of the Rajasthan legislative assembly, who have been accused of taking bribes to issue funds from their Local Area Development (LAD) fund on the basis of a sting operation by a local media, appeared before the ethics committee of the assembly for the second time on Tuesday and submitted necessary evidence for their innocence, said officials. The chairperson of the committee, BJP MLA Kailash Verma, said, "The Ethics committee summoned the three MLAs for the second time on Tuesday while the journalist who conducted the sting was also summoned. The committee heard both the parties. We are also gathering more details about the incident independently and visiting the constituencies of the concerned people." "A report will be submitted to the Speaker Vasudev Devnani soon. We will make a decision after reviewing all the aspects. We have also summoned the Bharat Adivasi Party MLA Jaikrishn Patel on Wednesday (who has been arrested by the ACB for taking bribe from an individual to remove three questions from the assembly list)," he added. Earlier they were also summoned by the same committee on December 17 after chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma formed a panel led by chief secretary and director general of police on December 14 to probe the three MLAs, who during a sting operation by a local newspaper, were purportedly found taking a hefty bribe to issue funds from their LAD fund. The LAD fund in those three constituencies have been frozen. The development came hours after a news report was published in a local newspaper in which their representative conducted a sting operation separately on the three MLAs last month. They claimed paying a Rs.50 lakh bribe to BJP MLA from Nagaur's Khinvsar Rewant Ram Danga, Rs.50,000 to Congress MLA from Karauli's Hindaun (SC) Anita Jatav through her husband, and a bribery deal of Rs.40 lakh was also made with independent MLA from Bharatpur's Bayana Ritu Banwat in exchange of some funds from the LAD to supply carpets to the schools in their concerned areas. Later, the publishing house also uploaded the videos, that were recorded by their reporter during the sting, on their digital portal. However, HT could not verify the veracity of those videos. Following the development, both the BJP and Congress also issued a notice to their respective MLAs which were not satisfactory, as the leaders of both parties said. On Tuesday, after appearing before the committee, MLA Banawatsaid, "During our last appearance, the committee asked for more details which we have presented before them today. It's a conspiracy. I am innocent."...