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Delhi excise coverage case: ED summons Telangana CM’s daughter Okay Kavitha

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By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter Okay Kavitha in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned on Wednesday.

Kavitha, 44, a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) social gathering MLC, has been requested to depose on March 9 earlier than the federal company within the nationwide capital.

She has been referred to as in order that she might be confronted with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, an alleged frontman of the ‘south group’, who was arrested by the ED on Monday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier mentioned that Pillai “represented the south group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others.

The ‘south group, in keeping with the company, “comprises” Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole Lok Sabha seat), Kavitha and others.

Kavitha had mentioned she can be in Delhi for holding a one-day starvation strike on the Jantar Mantar on March 10 to hunt the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill within the upcoming session of Parliament.

The BRS chief has been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on this case earlier.

It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers, who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) right here.

The coverage was later scrapped and the Delhi Lt Governor had advisable a CBI probe following which the ED registered a case underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter Okay Kavitha in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned on Wednesday.

Kavitha, 44, a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) social gathering MLC, has been requested to depose on March 9 earlier than the federal company within the nationwide capital.

She has been referred to as in order that she might be confronted with Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, an alleged frontman of the ‘south group’, who was arrested by the ED on Monday.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier mentioned that Pillai “represented the south group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others.

The ‘south group, in keeping with the company, “comprises” Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole Lok Sabha seat), Kavitha and others.

Kavitha had mentioned she can be in Delhi for holding a one-day starvation strike on the Jantar Mantar on March 10 to hunt the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill within the upcoming session of Parliament.

The BRS chief has been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on this case earlier.

It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers, who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) right here.

The coverage was later scrapped and the Delhi Lt Governor had advisable a CBI probe following which the ED registered a case underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).