New Delhi [India]March 11 (ANI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is scheduled to appear before the Enforcement Directorate today for questioning in connection with the Delhi liquor policy matter, as Kavita, party worker And supporters have gathered outside KCR’s residence in the national capital.
Earlier on Friday, Kavita started a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in the national capital demanding the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the current budget session of Parliament.
Citing his hunger strike to be held in Delhi on Friday, he asked the probe agency to postpone his questioning till Saturday.
Significantly, in this case, former Deputy CM of Delhi Manish Sisodia has been arrested by ED.
She reached the national capital on March 8, hours after the ED issued summons for questioning.
BRS leader KT Rama Rao also reached his father’s residence in the national capital on Friday.
According to sources, Kavitha will be pitted against Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramachandra Pillai, who was arrested on Monday night in the liquor policy case.
The MLC termed the summons as an “intimidation tactic” by the Center against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS, adding that the party will continue to fight and highlight the Centre’s failures and raise its voice for a brighter and better future. for India.
“I would also like the ruling party at the Center to know that these intimidation tactics against the fight and voice of our leader, CM KCR, and against the entire BRS party will not stop us. Under the leadership of KCR garu, we will continue to fight to expose your failures and raise our voice for a brighter and better future for India,” Kavita said in a tweet.
On March 8, the BRS came down heavily on the Center after the ED summoned Kavita in connection with its ongoing probe into the Delhi Excise Policy matter, saying that the central probe agencies have become an extended arm of the BJP.
Terming the summons as “politically motivated”, BRS leader Ravula Sreedhar Reddy had said that except for the ED and the BJP, no one really understands the case filed in connection with the New Delhi Excise Policy.
In its investigation, ED has found that Pillai is one of the key persons in the entire scam involving payment of huge kickbacks and formation of the biggest cartel, South Group.
The South group includes Telangana MLC Kavitha, Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Group), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (MP, Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta and others. The probe by the federal agency revealed that the South group was represented by Pillai, Abhishek Boinapalli and Buchi Babu.
Pillai was coordinating with various persons to execute a political understanding between his associates from the South group and a leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Disclosure from Delhi companies in ED investigation
The ED had earlier said that the South Group had paid a bribe of Rs 100 crore to AAP leaders.
Pillai is believed to be a 32.5 per cent partner in Indo Spirits, which got the L1 licence. Indo Spirits is a partnership firm of Arun Pillai (32.5 per cent), Prem Rahul (32.5 per cent) and Indospirit Distribution Limited (35 per cent), in which Arun Pillai and Prem Rahul represented Kavitha and Maguntha Srinivasu Reddy and their benami investments. Son Raghav Magunta.
Kavita, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the same case in December last year.
The excise policy was passed in the Delhi cabinet led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the midst of the deadly Delta Covid-19 pandemic in 2021.
The Delhi government says the policy was formulated to ensure maximum revenue, eliminate the sale of spurious liquor or non-duty paid liquor in Delhi, besides improving the user experience.
The CBI had registered a case against alleged corruption in the Excise Policy of 2021-22. The excise duty policy was later rolled back by the AAP government.
Sisodia was among 15 others against whom the CBI had registered an FIR. Excise officials, liquor company officials, dealers, some unknown public servants and private individuals were booked in the case.
It was alleged that irregularities were done including amendments in the excise policy and undue benefits were given to the license holders including exemption or reduction in license fee, extension of L-1 license without approval etc. (ANI)
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