BRS leader K Kavitha was sent to 14-days judicial custody by Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Monday. The Special Judge Kaveri Baweja on Monday 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.
Kavitha was produced physically before the court at the end of her three-day remand granted by the court on the last date of the hearing. She said, "It is not CBI custody, it is BJP custody. Whatever BJP is speaking outside, CBI is asking the same inside, asking again and again for 2 years, nothing new." Earlier, the CBI moved an application seeking court direction to send K Kavitha to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the Excise policy case.
Custodial interrogation of K Kavitha
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."
One of the companies under Aurbindo Group in July 2021 made a total payment of Rs 14 crore through bank account transaction, in which Rs 7 crore was paid on the first week of July 2021 and the rest Rs 7 crore was paid in mid November 2021, said CBI to Court while seeking custodial remand of K Kavitha. It has been further revealed that in November-December 2021, K Kavitha asked Sarath Chandra Reddy to pay Rs 25 crores at the rate of Rs 5 crore per zone as decided earlier for the five retail zones allotted to him, as she had claimed that she herself had paid Rs 100 crores as upfront money on our behalf to Aam Aadmi Party through the accused Vijay Nair for getting favourable provisions in Excise Policy and also pursued the same through her associates Arun R Pillai and Abhishek Boinpally.
However, when Sarath Chandra Reddy showed his reluctance to pay the demanded money, K Kavitha threatened Sarath Chandra Reddy to harm his business in Telengana and in Delhi under the Excise Policy, stated the remand application. According to the Central Bureau Investigation, Sarath Chandra Reddy has also stated that when the Delhi Excise Policy was withdrawn on August 31, 2022, the accused Arun R Pillai, the associate of K Kavitha told him not to pay the outstanding of M/s Indospirits for his retail zones, amounting to approximately Rs 60 crores and the same were to be paid to K Kavitha for recoupment of upfront Rs 100 crores paid by her and that he (Arun R Pillai) would advise how to proceed with that money, however, subsequently, the investigation in Delhi Excise Policy matter started and thereafter, Arun R Pillai did not contact him in this regard.
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