ED searches at MLC Kavitha’s residence in Hyderabad
Enforcement Directorate are carrying out searches against BRS MLC Kavitha Rao in regard to her alleged role in the Delhi Liquor Policy Scam.
By Coreena Suares Published on 15 March 2024 9:32 AM GMT
Hyderabad: Sleuths of Enforcement Directorate are carrying out searches against BRS MLC Kavitha Rao in regard to her alleged role in the Delhi Liquor Policy Scam.
Searches are underway at her residence in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad on Friday.
The BRS leader was previously questioned by ED in 2023.
In February 2024, Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K Kavitha who was summoned by the CBI in the Delhi Excise Policy case under a CrPC section meant for 'suspects', asked the agency to keep the notice in abeyance, citing upcoming parliamentary polls.
Thhe Supreme Court on February 28, 2024, extended till March 13 the protection it had granted to Kavitha from any coercive action in a money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
During her previous questioning, Kavitha was confronted with the statements of Butchibabu Gorantla, her former chartered accountant, and Arun Ramchandra Pillai. While Butchibabu was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in February, Pillai was arrested by ED in March last year.
However, Kavitha has denied all charges.
Delhi Liquor Policy Scam nailed three political parties including Aam Aadmi Party, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party. Reports are making rounds in the political circles that the three approvers in the case are being pitched against BRS MLC Kavitha Rao, as a favor to the big bosses to help save the skin of an important YSRCP MP who is facing murder charges.
The Enforcement Directorate has alleged that one of the accused in the case, Vijay Nair, received kickbacks of at least Rs 100 crore from a group called South Group (controlled by Sarath Reddy, Kavitha and Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy) on behalf of leaders of the AAP.
In the recent development, the Supreme Court has dismissed the curative petitions filed by AAP leader Manish Sisodia against its October 30 last year verdict dismissing his bail pleas in the corruption and money laundering cases related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 26, 2023 for his alleged role in the "scam".
More details on the present raids are awaited.
