New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislator and Telangana Chief Minister Okay. Chandrasekhar’s (KCR) daughter Okay. Kavitha on 9 March for questioning within the Delhi liquor rip-off.
In a press release, Kavitha assured her full cooperation as a “law-abiding citizen” however warned the Centre that such “techniques of intimidation… wouldn’t deter us”.
Kavitha mentioned she can be in Delhi to attend a one-day protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on 10 March, demanding the Girls’s Reservation Invoice in Parliament.
Because of the “dharna and pre-fixed appointments”, Kavitha will search authorized opinion earlier than her ED appointment the day earlier than, she mentioned.
“…I’ve been summoned by ED to look on March ninth in Delhi. As a law-abiding citizen, I am going to totally cooperate with investigation businesses. Nevertheless, as a result of Dharna & prefixed appointments, I am going to see authorized opinions on the date of attending it,” says BRS MLC Okay Kavitha https://t.co/U7PyXtInsV pic.twitter.com/u8Jan7eQZS
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Underneath the management of Chandrashekar, she mentioned in her assertion, “… we’ll proceed to struggle to show your failures & elevate voice for a brighter and higher future for India”.
“Let me additionally remind the ability mongers in Delhi that Telangana has by no means and can by no means bow earlier than the oppressive anti-people regime. We are going to fearlessly and fiercely struggle for the rights of the folks,” she mentioned.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the BRS chief in reference to the Delhi liquor rip-off and the ED has named Kavitha in its chargesheet within the case.
After her father’s Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) went nationwide to change into BRS, Kavitha has been taking care of the celebration’s all-india technique with the intention to rival the BJP.
Final August, she was implicated within the Delhi “liquor coverage rip-off”, an investigation that has seen many jailed, together with former Delhi deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief Manish Sisodia.
The CBI’s case in opposition to Sisodia is that he granted liquor licences to sure merchants in trade for bribes – and tweaked the now-withdrawn excise coverage of 2021-22 for this.
Late final yr, her identify appeared within the ED’s chargesheet which alleged that she was one of many greatest beneficiaries of the rip-off.
The ED alleged that the “South Group”— comprising Kavitha, prime Hyderabad businessman Sarath Chandra Reddy and YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy – paid kickbacks of Rs 100 crore to the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP authorities to realize management over the capital’s liquor enterprise.
Kavitha was interrogated by the CBI on 11 December, nearly every week after she acquired summons. After hours of questioning, she lashed out on the BJP for concentrating on her whereas Chandrashekar was making an effort to ascertain his nationwide celebration. She had mentioned she was able to go to jail and struggle in opposition to the BJP.
Her former auditor Buchibabu Gorantla was arrested within the case early February, and acquired bail on Monday.
The CBI mentioned Gorantla performed a job in formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Coverage and inflicting wrongful acquire to Hyderabad-based wholesale and retail licensees and their useful homeowners.
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