Case Excise: Delhi court holds judgement on BRS leader K Kavitha’s request for bail in CBI case

NEW DELHI: The Rouse Avenue court in Delhi postponed its decision on Monday over the bail request filed by K. Kavitha, a prominent member of the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS), in relation to the CBI case concerning the excise policy matter.

On Monday, Special Judge Kaveri Baweja set May 2 for the matter’s ruling to be declared.
The appeal further claimed that in order to pursue more coercive measures against the petitioner, the governing party at the Center is openly linking her to the Delhi excise policy via the use of investigative agencies.

The investigating authorities are well aware that the petitioner’s purported participation in the scheme is baseless. It is abundantly evident that the petitioner was not involved in the claimed fraud; hence, the purpose of the putative inquiry against her is not to determine whether she did or did not.

The political masterminds are fully aware that if the petitioner is linked to the purported scandal, it would damage her reputation and, therefore, that of her father, the former Chief Minister of Telangana. The political mileage that may be obtained from such activities can be used for the 2024 general elections. This is the one and only reason for the alleged inquiry. Bail plea claimed that this is the lowest point of despicable political propaganda, even by the low norms of Indian politics.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained BRS leader K. Kavitha last week. While in judicial custody in the ED case, she was taken into custody by the CBI.
In this case, Mohit Rao, Deepak Nagar, and advocate Nitesh Rana represented K. Kavitha.

The CBI remand request had previously stated that “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 and suspect persons regarding the 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 and suspect persons, including public servants, as well as to unearth the facts which are in her exclusive knowledge.”

In connection with the purported liquor policy fraud, K. Kavitha, MLC, Telangana Legislative Council, was taken into custody by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on March 15.
According to authorities, the report submitted by the Delhi Chief Secretary in July indicated prima facie breaches of the GNCTD Act 1991, the Transaction of Business Rules (ToBR) 1993, the Delhi Excise Act 2009, and the Delhi Excise Rules 2010. Based on these findings, a CBI investigation was suggested.

The CBI and the ED had claimed that improper actions were taken while changing the excise policy, that license holders received undue favors, that the license price was lowered or waived, and that the L-1 license was prolonged without the consent of the appropriate authorities. The investigating agencies said that in order to avoid being discovered, the recipients created fraudulent entries in their books of account and transferred “illegal” income to the accused officials.

According to the accusations, the excise agency chose to break the law by returning the roughly Rs 30 crore earnest money deposit to the victorious tenderer.
According to the investigation agency, despite the lack of an enabling clause, COVID-19 caused a remission on tendering licensing payments to be granted from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022. This resulted in an alleged loss of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer.