Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s politician daughter Okay Kavitha on Wednesday mentioned she’s going to seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate on March 11 in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage.
Kavitha Kalvakuntla (44), a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC, declared this in a late-night submit on her official Twitter deal with.
“I can be showing earlier than the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi on March 11, 2023,” she mentioned.
The BRS chief landed within the nationwide capital from Hyderabad late night. She was summoned by the ED to depose earlier than it on March 9.
Kavitha has been referred to as by the company in order that she could be confronted with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an alleged frontman of the “south group”, who was arrested by the ED on Monday.
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The company will report Kavitha’s assertion beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) throughout this confrontation.
Pillai is in ED custody and the company had earlier mentioned he “represented the south group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others.
The BRS chief mentioned she would totally 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 Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.
Kavitha mentioned “these ways of intimidation” in opposition to the combat of her father and Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, and the BRS wouldn’t deter them.
The ED has Pillai’s custody until March 12 (to be once more produced earlier than a Delhi court docket on March 13) and if Kavitha skips the date on Thursday, the company could give her a recent date inside the custody interval of Pillai.
The “south group”, based on the company, “contains” 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’s 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 ruling Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) right here.
The coverage was later scrapped and the Delhi Lt Governor really useful a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case beneath the PMLA.