Delhi Excise Police Case: BRS Leader K Kavitha Arrested By ED, Set To Be Produced Before Court Today

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday (15 March) arrested K Kavitha, a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and daughter of former CM K Chandrashekar Rao, on alleged charges of money laundering in the Delhi excise policy case.

Kavitha, who is a member of the legislative council (MLC) from Nizamabad, was nabbed after after the ED and the Income Tax department conducted searches at her Hyderabad residence.

The BRS leader was flown to Delhi after the arrest and will be produced before a magistrate today (16 March).

Reacting to her arrest, Kavitha's brother and former Telangana minister K T Rama Rao in a post on X said, "Abuse of power and institutional misuse to settle political scores is something that has become increasingly common with BJP government in last 10 years. ED needs to answer the Supreme Court on the inordinate rush to arrest when the matter is very much sub-judice and up for review in a couple of days, on the 19th of March. What's even more appalling is the ED undermining its own undertaking given to the Hon'ble Supreme Court. Justice shall prevail and we will continue to fight legally."

In its chargesheet in the case, the ED has alleged that Kavitha was part of a ‘South Group’ that paid Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to the Aam Aadmi Party leaders in exchange for undue benefits under the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.

Kavitha has denied the allegations, and described the ED notices as “Modi notices”.

Three key AAP leaders – Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Vijay Nair – are already in jail in connection with the case.

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