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New Delhi: On Friday, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court sent the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha to CBI remand till April 15 (Monday) in the Delhi excise policy case. She was previously in judicial custody – in Delhi’s Tihar Jail – till April 23 in a related money laundering case.
She was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation yesterday. Kavitha is one of the “key conspirators” in the liquor policy case and is concealing facts of the case exclusively known to her, according to the CBI. The CBI told the court that Kavitha was not cooperating in the investigation and was evasive in her replies in connection with the Delhi excise policy case.
The CBI remand application stated that “It was necessary to arrest Ms. Kavitha Kalvakuntla in this case for custodial interrogation in the presence of evidence and witnesses to unearth the larger conspiracy hatched amongst the accused/suspects with regard to formulation and implementation of the Excise Policy and to unearth the source of illegally earned money and to establish the role of other accused/suspects including public servants and to unearth the facts which are in their special knowledge.”
An MLC in Telangana and daughter of BRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao, K Kavitha had been arrested by the ED in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam on March 15. While seeking the custody of K Kavitha, the CBI told the court that in July 2021, one of the companies under the Aurobindo Group made payments totalling Rs 14 crore through bank account transactions, of which Rs 7 crore was paid in the first week of July 2021 and the remaining Rs 7 crore in mid-November 2021.
It is also revealed that in November-December 2021, K Kavitha had asked Sarath Chandra Reddy to pay Rs 25 crore for five retail areas allotted to him at the pre-decided rate of Rs 5 crore per area, as she claimed that she himself had made an advance payment of Rs 100 crore on our behalf to Aam Aadmi Party through accused Vijay Nair for getting favourable provisions in the excise policy and also pursued the same through his associates Arun R Pillai and Abhishek Boinpalli. CBI officials had recently questioned Kavitha inside prison after obtaining permission from a special court. The ED arrested Kavitha, 46, from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15.
