The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief Okay Kavitha to seem earlier than it on February 26 for questioning in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage case, The Hindu reported on Wednesday.
Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, was first questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for over seven hours in December 2022.
On March 11 final yr, she was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in the identical case for over 9 hours. On March 15, she had moved the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to the Enforcement Directorate summons. In a listening to in September, the court docket had requested the company to not summon Kavitha until it takes up the matter subsequent.
In January, the Enforcement Directorate summoned the Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC once more.
She had skipped the summons stating that the Supreme Courtroom was listening to a case that ladies needs to be questioned at their residence, The New Indian Categorical reported. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief skipped the company’s summons thrice final yr.
What’s the case about?
The Enforcement Directorate’s case relies on a primary data report registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation alleging irregularities within the Delhi authorities’s now-scrapped excise coverage.
The companies have alleged that the Aam Aadmi Celebration modified the coverage to make sure a 12% revenue margin for wholesalers and a virtually 185% revenue margin for retailers.
The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that Kavitha is a part of a so-called “South Group” that paid not less than Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to leaders of the Aam Aadmi Celebration by means of arrested businessman Vijay Nair.
In accordance with the company, other than Kavitha, others within the alleged “South Group” embody Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, the YSR Congress Celebration Lok Sabha MP from Ongole in Andhra Pradesh, his son Raghav Magunta and P Sarath Chandra Reddy, the son of PV Ramprasad Reddy, who’s the founding father of the Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma.
The Enforcement Directorate has alleged that the “South Group secured uninhibited entry, attained stakes in established wholesale companies and a number of retail zones [over and above what was allowed in the policy]”.
Kavitha has, up to now, stated she has finished nothing unsuitable and accused the Bharatiya Janata Celebration-led Central authorities of harassing its political adversaries.