New Delhi:
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha will stay within the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody until March 23 in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage case, a courtroom within the nationwide capital mentioned in the present day.
Ms Kavitha, who’s the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), faces allegations of conspiring with prime leaders of the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) in alternate for favours within the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage.
Throughout the courtroom listening to, Ms Kavitha’s lawyer mentioned this was a “basic case of abuse”. She was arrested from her Hyderabad dwelling by the Enforcement Directorate final night. After touchdown within the Delhi round midnight, she was taken to the ED’s workplace, the place medical checks had been finished.
The motion comes virtually two months after the ED issued summons to the 45-year-old BRS chief. She was questioned thrice on this case final yr, with the central company recording her assertion beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
Earlier in the present day, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appeared earlier than the Delhi courtroom following summons by the ED. The Rouse Avenue Court docket later granted him bail in two complaints linked with the Delhi liquor coverage case.
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