Delhi Court denies bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in CBI and ED cases connected to alleged liquor policy scam

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Monday denied bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in CBI and ED cases connected to the alleged liquor policy scam.

Special Judge Kaveri Baweja had, on Friday, heard a plea from Kavitha askng that she be physically produced before the court. On Monday, Baweja dismissed the application for bail, saying the stage was not right to grant relief.

In her application, the BRS leader's advocate Nitesh Rana told the court that she wishes to be produced physically before the court instead of being produced through video conference from Tihar central jail, where she is currently lodged.


"The applicant is a victim of grave persecution and harassment meted out against her for wholly malafide and vexatious considerations. She is sanguine to expose the falsity, lack of substance and hollowness in the case set up against her in due course of the proceedings," the application claimed.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Kavitha (46), the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15 in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested her on April 11 in Tihar jail, where she was lodged in the money laundering case being probed by the ED. Her judicial custody in both cases was scheduled to end on May 7.