Enforcement Directorate issues fresh summons to K Kavitha in Delhi excise policy case
Fresh summons has been issued to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) daughter and BRS leader K Kavitha, today by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after she skipped a date with the central probe agency earlier in the day in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy scam case.
According to officials, K Kavitha has been summoned for questioning in a money laundering case related to the Delhi policy scam case on March 20.
The BRS leader’s legal team submitted a representation to the probe agency in which she said matters regarding her summoning for questioning by the ED is now before the Supreme Court and ‘the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons’.
Earlier today, K Kavitha skipped on a summon by the ED and instead sent her ‘authorized representative” (an office bearer of her party), along with a letter wherein the BRS MLC said the she sending her as the summons do not explicitly require her being there in person. Kavitha also cited a pending plea before the Supreme Court in which has sought protection from arrest and quashing of summons against her in the case.
Kavitha wrote in her letter to ED: “I humbly beseech your good self that the proceedings before the Supreme Court being sacred and sacrosanct, the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons.”
K Kavitha’s “authorized representative” handed a six-page representation against her deposition along with her bank statement, personal and business details to the ED investigation officer, according to reports.
Kavitha, who was questioned by the central agency for nine hours on March 11 and was asked to depose again on March 16. During the interrogation session, she was reportedly made to confront statements made by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an arrested accused in the case who allegedly who allegedly shares close ties with her, apart from those of few others involved in the case.
The BRS leader recently led a hunger strike in Delhi on March 10 seeking the passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament.
However, both Congress and the BJP have alleged that Kavitha’s hunger strike was a mere ploy to divert attention from her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the purported Delhi liquor policy scam case.
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