TRS says K Kavita will cooperate with the agency.
Hyderabad:
Kavitha, daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Telangana MLA, was today questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for over seven hours over her alleged involvement in the Delhi Liquor Policy case that was quashed today.
Ms. Kavita was questioned by a six-member CBI team at her home in Hyderabad amid tight security. Police have put up barricades around his house to prevent his supporters from gathering.
Her party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), says it will cooperate with the agency.
The CBI had earlier summoned him on 6 December. Seeking postponement of the questioning, Ms. Kavita had requested the officials to come to her Banjara Hills home any day between December 11 and 15.
K Kavita’s name has cropped up in a remand report filed by the Enforcement Directorate citing statements of Amit Arora, an arrested Gurugram-based businessman.
The central agency claimed Ms Kavita was a key member of the “South Group” which paid at least Rs 100 crore to leaders of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) through another arrested businessman Vijay Nair .
“As per the investigation conducted so far, Mr Vijay Nair has received a bribe of at least Rs 100 crore from a group called South Group (controlled by Mr Sarath Reddy, Ms K Kavitha, Mr) on behalf of AAP leaders. Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy) by various persons including Amit Arora. The arrested Mr. Amit Arora has disclosed this in his statements,” read a statement by ED.
Amit Arora is the director of liquor manufacturing company Buddy Retail.
Ms. Kavita has accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the KCR-led state government and using central agencies to “defame” her.
As the state nears assembly elections next year, Ms. Kavita said that more and more leaders who have mass appeal are being harassed by the BJP, especially popular faces of the TRS.
The ED had allegedly used the controversial liquor policy as a tool to generate illegal money, claiming that the policy would have allegedly caused losses to the exchequer.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Mr Sisodia and the AAP have rejected allegations of impropriety and termed the allegations as an act of retaliation by the BJP, which controls the government and agencies such as the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) .
The BJP is also at war with Telangana Chief Minister KCR, who has launched an all-out attack on the party as he prepares to enter national politics.