The Supreme Courtroom on Friday denied bail to BRS chief Okay Kavitha, who was arrested by the ED for her involvement within the Delhi excise coverage rip-off case.
Kavitha, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council and the daughter of former state chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, was remanded in custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday till March 23.
The 46-year-old was apprehended by the federal anti-money laundering company at her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad. In a second movement, Kavitha stated, “Quash and put aside your entire motion taken by the respondent (ED) resulting in the arrest of the petitioner as the identical is wholly non-est; unlawful, arbitrary, unconstitutional, opposite to the enterprise tendered earlier than this courtroom and likewise being violative of the postulates of Part 19 of Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002 particularly qua a girl.”
It’s to be famous that the apex courtroom has issued discover to the ED on a writ petition filed by Okay Kavitha, difficult her arrest by the ED in reference to the Delhi Liquor Coverage case. For bail, the Supreme Courtroom instructed her to strategy the trial courtroom.
A particular bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela Trivedi refused to listen to her petition, stating that “she should comply with a uniform coverage and search aid from the trial courtroom”. The courtroom additionally acknowledged that folks can not strategy the highest courtroom instantly for bail just because they’re politicians or can afford to take action.
Her writ petition was heard this morning within the Supreme Courtroom, alongside an pressing listening to over Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest final night.
Kejriwal, the sitting Delhi CM, is the third chief of the AAP to be arrested. All three leaders have been arrested in the identical case, His arrest follows the apprehension former deputy Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh.
The CM spent the evening in a jail on the ED’s workplace. He’s set to be produced earlier than an ED courtroom on Friday. The police have deplyed heavy securiry abd barricades close to the AAP workplace whereas site visitors restrictions have been enforced within the metropolis in view of protests.