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NEW DELHI: Delhi's Rouse Avenue court on Wednesday reserved its order on regular bail of
BRS
leader
K Kavitha
in the Delhi Excise policy
money laundering case
.
The court will pronounce the order on May 6. BRS leader K Kavitha was sent to 8-day judicial custody till April 23 by Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on April 15 in the liquor scam case.
The CBI produced the accused before the court on expiry of her eight-day custody granted earlier by the judge.
The interrogation of the K Kavitha focused on WhatsApp conversations retrieved from the mobile device belonging to Buchi Babu, a co-accused in the case. The authorities inquired about documentation pertaining to a land transaction, which allegedly resulted in a payment of Rs 100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
BRS leader K Kavitha was arrested by CBI while in judicial custody in the ED case. The CBI remand application stated that "Kavitha Kalvakuntla was required to be arrested in the instant case to conduct her custodial interrogation for confronting her with the evidence and witnesses to unearth the larger conspiracy hatched among the accused, suspect persons regarding the formulation and implementation of the Excise Policy, as well as to establish the money trail of ill-gotten money generated and to establish the role of other accused/suspect persons, including public servants, as well as to unearth the facts which are in her exclusive knowledge."
The directorate of enforcement (ED) arrested K Kavitha, MLC, Telangana legislative council, on March 15, in the case of the alleged liquor policy scam. The CBI inquiry was recommended based on the findings of the Delhi Chief Secretary's report filed in July showing prima facie violations of the GNCTD Act 1991, Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR)-1993, Delhi Excise Act-2009, and Delhi Excise Rules-2010, officials said.
The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the excise policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 licence was extended without the competent authority's approval. The beneficiaries diverted "illegal" gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their books of account to evade detection, the probe agencies said.
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