ED Summons Telangana CM KCR’s Daughter K Kavitha In Delhi Excise Policy Case | India News

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage, officers stated on Wednesday (March 8, 2023). Kavitha, who’s a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) celebration MLC, has been requested to depose on March 9 earlier than the federal company in Delhi. She has reportedly been known as in order that she could be confronted with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, an alleged frontman of the ‘south group’, who was arrested by the ED on Monday.

The regulation enforcement company had earlier stated that Pillai “represented the south group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others. The stated “south group”, based on ED, “comprises” Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole Lok Sabha seat), Kavitha and others.

She has additionally been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on this case earlier.

It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage 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 Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

The coverage was later scrapped and the Delhi Lt Governor had advisable a CBI probe following which the ED registered a case underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Delhi Excise coverage case: ED questions Manish Sisodia in Tihar Jail

The ED on Tuesday additionally questioned former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia inside Tihar jail as a part of its cash laundering probe into alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage.

It was for the primary time that the senior AAP chief was quizzed by the ED within the excise coverage case. 

The questioning reportedly lasted for about 5 hours.

The questioning is prone to proceed over the subsequent few days whilst Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal focused Prime Minister Narendra Modi once more over the arrest of Sisodia and one other celebration colleague Satyendra Jain.

Sisodia is presently lodged in Tihar jail after a CBI court docket on Monday remanded him to 14-day judicial custody in the identical case.