ED summons BRS leader Kavitha for questioning in Delhi excise policy case on January 16
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Delhi excise policy case: Enforcement Directorate summons BRS leader K Kavitha for questioning in Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case.
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned BRS leader K Kavitha for a fresh round of questioning in connection with its probe into the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said on Monday.
The 45-year-old daughter of former Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao has been asked to depose before the agency in Delhi on Tuesday, they said.
Sources, however, said that she may not depose before the agency and has communicated her decision to the investigating officer through an email.
"There is a Supreme Court order that has said that the ED cannot summon K Kavitha in this case," her lawyer Nitesh Rana told PTI.
ED sources said that the BRS leader had obtained a temporary relief from the Supreme Court last year which is not valid now.
She was questioned thrice in this case last year and the central agency recorded her statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC has asserted in the past that she had done nothing wrong and alleged that the BJP-led Centre was "using" the ED as the saffron party could not gain a "backdoor entry" into Telangana.
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