A Delhi Court on Monday sent BRS leader K Kavitha to judicial custody till April 23 in a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy.
Earlier, the BRS leader was remanded to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till April 15 in the alleged liquor policy scam.
After the hearing at the court, Kavitha told reporters, “CBI custody is like BJP custody.” She moved the bail plea in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court and it is set to hear the plea at 2pm on Monday.
K Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested by the CBI on Thursday from judicial custody in Tihar jail, where she has been lodged after her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The CBI produced the accused before the court on expiry of her three-day police custody granted earlier by the judge and sought her JC.
The CBI told the court that she was not required for further custodial interrogation. Advocate Nitesh Rana, representing Kavitha along with Deepak Nagar, opposed the police plea, saying the grounds were not sufficient to keep her in custody since she is no longer required for custodial interrogation.
CBI officials had recently questioned Kavitha inside prison after obtaining permission from a special court. The BRS leader was questioned about the WhatsApp chats recovered from co-accused Buchi Babu’s phone and documents related to a land deal, after which an amount of Rs 100 crore was allegedly paid to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in kickbacks to swing the excise policy for the national capital in favour of a liquor lobby.
The BRS leader was arrested by the central probe agency on March 15. She has been accused of being a key member of the “South Group”, which allegedly paid the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi kickbacks of Rs 100 crore in return for a big share of liquor licenses in the national capital.
The 46-year old leader was arrested from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15.
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