Hyderabad: The ED on Friday took into custody BRS MLC and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha in connection with a money laundering case.
Officials of the Enforcement Directorate had earlier raided her premises.
Senior BRS leader and former minister Prasanth Reddy quoting ED officials said Kavitha will be taken to Delhi tonight.
Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, had skipped at least two summonses issued by the probe agency this year.
The 45-year-old BRS leader did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate on January 16 for a fresh round of questioning in the case, citing a Supreme Court order which stated that the probe agency cannot summon Kavitha in this case.
However, Enforcement Directorate sources told news agency PTI that the BRS leader had obtained a temporary relief from the top court last year and it is not valid now.
Prior to this, Kavitha was questioned thrice last year in connection with the case and the probe agency had even recorded her statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The BRS MLC has maintained that she had done no wrong and instead accused the BJP-led Central government of ‘misusing’ the central agencies in order to get a ‘backdoor’ entry into Telangana.
Amit Arora, one of the accused in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy case, had named K Kavitha during questioning. The probe agency had alleged that there was a liquor lobby called the “South Group”, which paid as much as Rs 100 crore kickbags to many Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders through another accused, Vijay Nair.
The Enforcement Directorate has also alleged that the handler of the “South Group” is a business associate of K Kavitha.
The probe agency has also issued multiple sumonses to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the same case. Kejriwal, however, had skipped all the eight summonses issued against him.
