Delhi excise policy rip-off: BRS MLC and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, Ok Kavitha, who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the Delhi liquor rip-off, stated she would appear before the probe company on March 11. In a late-night tweet on Wednesday Kavitha stated she would be showing before the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi on March 11, 2023.
Kavitha has been referred to as by the company in order that she will be confronted with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an alleged frontman of the “south group”, who was arrested by the ED on Monday.
The company will file Kavitha’s assertion below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) throughout this confrontation. Pillai is in ED custody and the company had earlier stated he “represented the south group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others.
The BRS chief stated she would absolutely cooperate with the investigation company however would search authorized opinion on the date of deposition in view of her proposed dharna in Delhi on March 10 in help of the Women’s Reservation Bill.
Kavitha links summon to her upcoming dharna for Women’s Reservation Bill
“Ahead of our March 10 dharna along with the opposition parties and women organisations demanding the Women’s Reservation Bill at Jantar Mantar, I have been summoned by the ED on March 9th,” she tweeted.
Kavitha stated “these tactics of intimidation” in opposition to the combat of her father and Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, and the BRS wouldn’t deter them.
The ED has Pillai’s custody until March 12. He will once more be produced before a Delhi court docket on March 13.
South group behind liquor rip-off in Delhi
The “south group”, in accordance to the company, “comprises” Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole Lok Sabha seat), Kavitha and others.
The ED additionally alleged in Pillai’s remand papers that he “represented the benami investments” of Kavitha on this case.
The BRS chief has been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on this case earlier. It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers, who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) right here.
The policy was later scrapped and the Delhi Lt Governor advisable a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case below the PMLA.
“…I have been summoned by ED to appear on March 9th in Delhi. As a law-abiding citizen, I’ll fully cooperate with investigation agencies. However, due to the Dharna & prefixed appointments, I’ll see legal opinions on the date of attending it,” stated BRS MLC Kavitha.
Earlier, a Hyderabad-based Chartered Accountant named Butchibabu Gorantla -understood to be the ex-auditor of Kavitha- was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in reference to the identical case.
CBI knowledgeable in an announcement on Wednesday (February 8), that the accused CA has been arrested for his alleged function in formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Policy and inflicting wrongful achieve to Hyderabad-based wholesale and retail licensees and their helpful homeowners.
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The Delhi authorities’s model is that the policy was formulated to make sure the era of optimum income, and eradicate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, moreover bettering consumer expertise. The probe was performed after making an allowance for a report forwarded by the Chief Secretary to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommending a CBI investigation into the matter.
Following L-G’s suggestion, the workplace of the Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police’s Economic Offence Wing (EOW) issued a discover to Delhi’s Excise Commissioner asking him to present all paperwork relating to the award of liquor licenses below the brand new excise policy.
Also, former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was arrested in reference to the alleged excise policy rip-off. Several raids have been additionally carried out at a number of locations in Delhi and the National Capital Region together with the residence of Sisodia and the premises of 4 public servants final 12 months.
(With companies inputs)
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