CBI Seeks 5-Day Judicial Custody of K Kavitha In Excise Policy Case

BY A STAFF REPORTER: A day after taking her custody, the Central Bureau of Investigation sought five days of judicial custody of BRS MLC K Kavitha before the Rouse Avenue Court on April 12, Friday. 

The CBI has accused K Kavitha as the key conspirator in the liquor policy scam. They further alleged that K Kavitha collected kickbacks worth Rs. 100 crores. 

The CBI took K Kavitha's custody under sections of criminal conspiracy and falsification of accounts of the Indian Penal Code & certain sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Moreover, the Rouse Avenue Court on Monday came heavily upon K Kavitha for evidently influencing witnesses and destroying evidence. Her interim bail plea on the grounds of her son's school examination was also rejected by the Rouse Avenue Court.

K Kavitha has been lodged in the Tihar Jail. Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court sent BRS MLC K Kavitha to judicial custody till April 9 in the Delhi Liquor Policy Case on March 26, Tuesday. The Enforcement Directorate arrested her on March 15 following a raid at her residence in Hyderabad.