Delhi Excise Policy: BRS Leader Kavitha Moves Court Opposing CBI plea for Interrogation

BRS leader Kalvakuntla Kavitha, who was arrested in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, moved Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday to oppose a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea seeking her interrogation in Tihar jail in a corruption case related to the alleged scam.

On Friday, the court granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) permission to question Kavitha in Tihar. This decision came in response to the CBI’s request to interrogate Kavitha during judicial custody.

Advocate Nitesh Rana, representing Kavitha, informed the court that the CBI had filed the plea “behind her back,” thus obstructing the due process of law. He expressed concern that the CBI might not have disclosed all relevant facts to obtain a favorable court order.

“I have serious apprehensions that the CBI may not have disclosed the true facts in order to obtain a favorable order from the court,” he told the court, urging it to suspend the order until Kavitha’s side is heard.

The court is expected to hear her plea later on Saturday.

On March 15, the BRS leader was apprehended by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case associated with the purported Delhi excise policy scam. On Thursday, the Telangana MLC appealed to the court for interim bail, citing her 16-year-old son’s exams, stating that he required his mother’s “moral and emotional support.”

Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, faces accusations of being a prominent figure within the “South Group.” This group purportedly offered kickbacks of Rs 100 crore to the ruling AAP in Delhi in exchange for a significant portion of liquor licenses in the national capital. She was remanded to 14-day judicial custody last Tuesday (April 2).