New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): As Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter Okay Kavitha, is scheduled to seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate at the moment for questioning in connection to the Delhi liquor coverage case, the celebration staff and supporters have gathered exterior the residence of KCR within the nationwide capital. 
Earlier on Friday, Kavitha launched a starvation strike at Jantar Mantar within the nationwide capital demanding the introduction of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice within the present Finances session of Parliament.
Citing her starvation strike scheduled in Delhi on Friday, she requested the probe company to postpone her questioning until Saturday.
Notably, former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia has been arrested by ED in the identical case.
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.
In keeping with sources, Kavitha will probably be made to take a seat face-to-face with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, who was arrested in reference to the liquor coverage case on Monday evening.
The MLC termed the summons as “ways of intimidation” by the Centre in opposition to the Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS, including that the celebration will proceed to battle and expose the Centre’s failures and can increase its voice for a brighter and higher future for India.
“I’d additionally just like the ruling celebration on the Centre to know that these ways of intimidation in opposition to the battle and voice of our chief, CM KCR, and in opposition to the complete BRS celebration is not going to deter us. Underneath the management of KCR Garu, we are going to proceed to battle to reveal your failures and lift voice for a brighter and higher future for India,” Kavitha stated 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Reddy had stated that besides ED and BJP, no person actually understands the case registered in reference to the new-withdrawn new Delhi excise coverage.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 among the key individuals in the complete rip-off involving funds of giant kickbacks and the formation of the most important 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 South Group was being represented by Pillai, Abhishek Boinpalli and Butchi Babu, the federal company investigation has revealed.
Pillai alongside together with his associates was coordinating with numerous individuals to execute the political understanding between the South Group and a pacesetter of Aam Aadmi Occasion (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.
The ED had earlier stated 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 received 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 Restricted (35 per cent), whereby Arun Pillai and Prem Rahul represented the benami investments of Kavitha and Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and his son Raghava Magunta.
Kavitha, who’s a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the identical case in December final yr.
The excise coverage was handed in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Cupboard in the midst of the lethal Delta Covid-19 pandemic in 2021.
The Delhi authorities’s model is that the coverage was formulated to make sure the era of optimum income, eradicate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, in addition to enhancing consumer expertise.
The CBI had filed a case in opposition to alleged corruption within the 2021-22 excise coverage. The excise coverage was subsequently withdrawn by the AAP authorities.
Sisodia was amongst 15 others booked in an FIR filed by the CBI. Excise officers, liquor firm executives, sellers, some unknown public servants and personal individuals have been booked within the case.
It was alleged that irregularities have been dedicated together with modifications within the Excise Coverage and undue favours have been prolonged to the license holders together with waiver or discount in licence price, an extension of L-1 license with out approval and many others. (ANI)
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