The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is also investigating the Delhi Excise Policy scam case, is all set to act against the MLC of the Telangana Legislature, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, as she is gearing up to file a petition before the Supreme Court to challenge her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate as unlawful, in the previous week. On Monday at the ED office in Delhi, Kavitha was queried by the authorities of the Enforcement Directorate. An official team led by deputy director Bhanupriya Meena and assistant director Jogender critically took against her mobile phone usage for the past few years but formatted all of them post the cases registered by the CBI.
During the police custody, Kavitha was assumedly making nonessential, needless and political statements when she was interrogated. She supposedly disagreed to acknowledge certain chats which showed her alliance with specific entries. She refused to answer and she also questioned the ED officials about the originality of the document. She even refused to speak when the ED officials reportedly queried her about 9 phones which were presented and they are dataless.
She further stated that those phones were with her staff and took them back to her staff to produce before the ED. The ED asked Kavitha’s husband D. Anil Kumar to appear before the ED for questioning, after her statement. But on the other hand, Anil Kumar said that he could not appear before the ED because of his personal reasons. Even though one of the petitions of Kavitha is unsettled before the court, her cousel filed a contempt petition before the Supreme Court challenging the ED’s arrest. As the Apex Court reserved the verdict on the earlier petition to March 19, the petitions are expected to be heard on the same day. Pouring scorns on the ED, Kavitha said she was deliberately arrested by the ED and her arrest is unlawful.
The ED officials said, “Kavitha was involved in paying Rs 100 crore to the leaders of AAP, in exchange for these favours. A progessive stream of illicit funds in the form of kickback from the wholesalers was created for the AAP, by the acts of corruption and conspiracy in the formulation and implementation of Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.”