The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi on Monday sent BRS MLC K Kavitha to judicial custody till April 23 in connection with a corruption case linked to the Delhi excise policy case. She was produced before
The Special Judge Kaveri Baweja sent K Kavitha to judicial custody until April 23, 2024, after noting that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not want her custodial remand in the matter.
Earlier, the CBI moved an application seeking court direction to send Kavitha to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the Excise policy case.
CBI remand application stated that “Ms Kavitha Kalvakuntla was required to be arrested in the instant case to conduct her custodial interrogation for confronting her with the evidence and witnesses to unearth the larger conspiracy hatched among the accused/suspect persons regarding formulation and implementation of the Excise Policy, as well as to establish the money trail of ill-gotten money generated and to establish the role of other accused/suspect persons including public servants as well as to unearth the facts which are in her exclusive knowledge.”
Speaking to the media after coming out of the court, Kavitha said she was not in CBI custody, but in the BJP custody. “The CBI is asking the same questions that are being said by the BJP in public. There is nothing new. They have been asking the same questions repeatedly for the last two years,” she said.
The BRS leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 15 and sent to judicial custody after the ED questioned her in connection with the money laundering case linked to the excise policy case. She has been lodged in Tihar jail where the CBI arrested her on corruption charges in connection with the Delhi excise policy case on April 11. She was placed in CBI remand for three days and has been now sent to judicial custody.