New Delhi: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao`s daughter K Kavitha left the Enforcement Directorate (ED) workplace within the nationwide capital after the officers questioned her in reference to Delhi liquor coverage case on Saturday. Kavitha had requested the federal probe company to postpone her questioning to Saturday, citing her starvation strike in Delhi on Friday. The central company agreed to her request and rescheduled the questioning for Saturday. She had arrived within the nationwide capital on March 8, hours after the ED issued a summons for questioning. BRS chief KT Rama Rao on Friday additionally arrived on the residence of his father within the nationwide capital. Notably, former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia has been arrested by ED in the identical case.
According to sources, Kavitha was to be made to sit down face-to-face with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, who was arrested in reference to the liquor coverage case on Monday evening.Â
#WATCH | Delhi: BRS MLC and Telangana CM’s daughter K Kavitha leaves the ED workplace after she was questioned by the ED officers pertaining to Delhi liquor coverage case. pic.twitter.com/muNnfY9FVQ
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The MLC had known as the summons “tactics of intimidation” by the Centre towards the Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS, including that the occasion will proceed to combat and expose the Centre`s failures and can increase its voice for a brighter and higher future for India.
“I would also like the ruling party at the Centre to know that these tactics of intimidation against the fight and voice of our leader, CM KCR, and against the entire BRS party will not deter us. Under the leadership of KCR Garu, we will continue to fight to expose your failures and raise voice for a brighter and better future for India,” Kavitha mentioned in a tweet.
On March 8, the BRS got here down closely on the Centre after the ED summoned Kavitha in reference to its ongoing probe within the Delhi excise coverage case, saying that the central probe businesses have change into an prolonged arm of the BJP. Referring to the summons as “politically motivated”, BRS chief Ravula Sridhar Reddy had mentioned that besides ED and BJP, no person actually understands the case registered in reference to the new-withdrawn new Delhi excise coverage.
In its investigation, ED has come to know that Pillai is likely one of the key individuals in all the rip-off involving funds of giant kickbacks and the formation of the largest cartel of the South Group. South Group includes Telangana MLC Kavitha, Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Group), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (MP, Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta, and others. The federal company investigation has revealed that the South Group was being represented by Pillai, Abhishek Boinpalli and Butchi Babu.
Pillai alongside along with his associates was coordinating with varied individuals to execute the political understanding between the South Group and a pacesetter of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Pillai has been an confederate and was concerned within the kickbacks from the South Group and the recoupment of the identical from the companies in Delhi, ED investigation reveals.Â
The ED had earlier mentioned that the South Group gave kickbacks of Rs 100 crore to AAP leaders. Pillai is learnt to be a companion of 32.5 per cent in Indo Spirits, which had acquired an L1 licence. Indo Spirits is a partnership agency of Arun Pillai (32.5 per cent), Prem Rahul (32.5 per cent) and Indospirit Distribution Limited (35 per cent), whereby Arun Pillai and Prem Rahul represented the benami investments of Kavitha and Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and his son Raghava Magunta.In December final yr, Kavitha, a Telangana Legislative Council member, was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the identical case.
The excise coverage was handed in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cabinet in the course of the lethal Delta Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The Delhi authorities`s model is that the coverage was formulated to make sure the technology of optimum income, eradicate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, apart from enhancing consumer expertise. The CBI had filed a case towards alleged corruption within the 2021-22 excise coverage. The excise coverage was subsequently withdrawn by the AAP authorities.Â
Sisodia was amongst 15 others booked in an FIR filed by the CBI. Excise officers, liquor firm executives, sellers, unknown public servants and personal individuals had been booked within the case. It was alleged that irregularities had been dedicated together with modifications within the Excise Policy and undue favours had been prolonged to the license holders together with waiver or discount in licence payment, an extension of L-1 license with out approval and so on.
