K Kavitha: ED summons KCR’s daughter K Kavitha in Delhi excise policy probe | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: K Kavitha, a member of the Telangana legislative council and daughter of Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, has been issued fresh summons by the ED to appear for questioning at its Delhi headquarters on Friday. She has been summoned in a money laundering case related to alleged payoffs of Rs 100 crore by the “South Group” for control of liquor distribution in the national capital.

Kavitha was first issued summons for Thursday, soon after the agency arrested Arun Pillai, an alleged close associate of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi lawmaker. After she skipped the summons, a fresh one was issued for Friday, sources said. While questioning the action, Kavitha told a press conference that she will appear before the agency on Saturday as she will be on a hunger strike here on Friday in support of the women’s reservation bill.
Kavitha called the ED summons an act of vendetta politics as, she claimed, at least 15-16 leaders from her party, including MLAs and MPs, have been targeted by central agencies in different cases. She said agencies are targeting parties and leaders that don’t subscribe to the BJP ideology. “The question is why? The Telangana assembly polls are due in November-December. The modus operandi of the BJP has been that before (PM) Modi, ED reaches wherever there are elections,” she said.

Pillai said South Group paid `100cr to AAP leaders: ED
The agency had arrested Arun Pillai on Tuesday in the same case. In its remand note submitted before the PMLA court here, the agency claimed that Pillai and one Prem Rahul allegedly “represented the benami investments of K Kavitha and Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (Lok Sabha MP) and his son Raghav Magunta, respectively”. “Arun Pillai is one of the key persons in the Delhi excise scam involving payments of huge kickbacks and formation of the biggest cartel of the South Group,” the ED had claimed while explaining that the cartel known as the “South Group” comprised of Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta and K Kavitha. The agency further claimed that Arun Pillai “revealed in his statements that the South Group paid Rs 100 crore to AAP leaders”