The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is presently conducting raids on the residence of Ok Kavitha’s kin in Hyderabad, sources informed ABP Information on Saturday. Kavitha, a frontrunner of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, is presently in custody in reference to the Delhi Excise Coverage case.
It’s to be famous that right this moment, Saturday (March 22), marks the tip of Kavitha’s remand within the case.
The explanations behind the central company’s raid stay unclear at this juncture. Sources recommend that the ED will confirm shortly the precise case linked to the continued raids.
The raids commenced this morning and are going down at two totally different places in Hyderabad. In response to sources, the premises of Kavitha’s brother’s daughter-in-law are amongst these being searched.
In a growth on Friday, the Supreme Courtroom directed the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to hunt bail from the trial courtroom within the cash laundering case associated to the Delhi excise coverage. The bench, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela M Trivedi, instructed Kavitha to observe due process and method the trial courtroom for bail.
Whereas responding to senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who represented Kavitha, the bench said that the petition difficult sure provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act can be thought-about together with pending issues.
Sibal raised considerations about arrests primarily based on the assertion of an approver, to which the courtroom indicated it could not delve into the case’s specifics presently.
Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, stays in ED custody till March 23.
The ED alleges that Kavitha colluded with senior Aam Aadmi Get together leaders, together with celebration chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former minister Manish Sisodia, to realize benefits within the Delhi liquor coverage by offering ₹100 crore to the political celebration. Kavitha has denied these accusations, labeling the ED’s actions towards her as ‘illegal’.
Final 12 months, the ED had interrogated Kavitha thrice on this case, and she or he was summoned once more this 12 months, though she didn’t seem, citing safety from coercive motion as per a Supreme Courtroom directive.
Earlier, Kavitha had additionally confronted questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) concerning the identical matter.