K Kavitha arrested: The daughter of Telangana’s former chief minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao, was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday, March 15, in connection with a money laundering case involving the now-canceled Delhi excise scheme.
On Friday, income tax and ED agents spent five hours searching Kavitha’s home in Hyderabad.
Following hours of raids at her Hyderabad home on Friday, BRS activist K Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the Delhi liquor policy investigation. According to news agencies, Kavitha would be sent to Delhi for additional interrogation. This occurred hours after searches at her Hyderabad home by ED and income tax authorities, which incited demonstrations by BRS backers. Kavitha’s brother, KT Rama Rao, a former minister from Telangana, arrived at her home following reports that she had been taken into custody by ED authorities.When the search was conducted, D Anil Kumar, Kavitha’s husband, was there at the house.
Following Aam Aadmi Party members Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, this is the third high-profile arrest. Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, is also under investigation in relation to the same issue; however, Kejriwal has ignored all of the ED’s recent summonses.
“They told us at the house that Kavitha will be traveling to Delhi by airplane by 8:45 p.m. Pradosh Reddy, a senior BRS politician and former minister, told reporters outside the BRS MLC’s home, “It looks that they had decided to take her into custody and even booked a flight ticket for Kavitha even before they came here,” PTI said.
What is the relationship between K Kavitha and the liquor policy case in Delhi?
Manish Sisodia, the former deputy chief minister of Delhi, is incarcerated in relation to the same case. The accusations state that K Kavitha was a key player in a “south cartel” that was implicated in the Delhi liquor policy fraud. Businessman Sarath Reddy from Hyderabad, YSR Congress MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, and his son Raghav Magunta Reddy were also members of this cartel. Businessmen Arun Pillai, Abhishek Boinpally, and chartered accountant Butchibabu represented this cartel in the south.
Kavitha was called in for interrogations multiple times, and she ignored the last two of those calls. In this case from the previous year, she was questioned three times, and the central agency recorded her statement in accordance with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
This south cartel was promised a share in the Delhi liquor sector by Vijay Nair, one of the accused in the case who has ties to the AAP. The Delhi liquor policy, which has since been overturned, gave the south group certain unfair advantages and allowed them to hold more maintain licenses.
“Kavitha had a political agreement with Delhi’s deputy chief minister (Manish Sisodia) and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. During that procedure, on March 19–20, 2021, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair,” Butchibabu stated in his testimony.
K Kavitha’s reaction to her arrest
K Kavitha insisted she hadn’t done anything improper. She claimed that since the BJP was unable to obtain a “backdoor entry” into Telangana, the Center was “using” the ED.
Videos that have been released by media outlets purport to show K Kavitha and ED officers getting into a furious argument. K. Kavitha made a “show of strength” by leaving her house with her son and family at her side, according to the BRS politician.Videos that have been released by media outlets purport to show K Kavitha and ED officers getting into a furious argument. K. Kavitha made a “show of strength” by leaving her house with her son and family at her side, according to the BRS politician.
