The CBI on Wednesday arrested Butchi Babu Gorantla, a Hyderabad-based chartered accountant for his alleged function within the formulation and implementation of the Delhi excise coverage, information company ANI reported. Butchubabu Gorantla is believed to be a former aide of Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter MLC Kavitha whose title has already been dragged into the case. The coverage prompted ‘wrongful acquire’ to Hyderabad’s wholesale and retail licensees and their useful homeowners, the company stated. He might be produced in court docket at this time. Learn | Delhi liquor coverage: WhatsApp chats, name information proof in ED cost sheet
The CA was summoned to Delhi and was arrested late on Tuesday as he was non-cooperative and his responses had been discovered to be evasive, information company PTI reported.
This isn’t the primary time that the CA’s title has come up within the case. In 2022, his residence in Aravind Nagar, Domalguda was raided by the Enforcement Directorate as he served as the non-public auditor of many eminent individuals together with Kavitha.
Kavitha was questioned by the CBI in reference to the coverage and denied all allegations of receiving kickbacks via the coverage.
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has been named because the prime accused within the case of alleged violations within the Delhi Liquor Police 2021-22. It was scrapped within the wake of the row. It was alleged that there was a South cartel of liquor contractors who gave ₹100 crore to AAP functionaries to get a bonus within the liquor coverage. This cartel included P Sarath Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma, BRS MLA Kavitha and YSRC MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy.