The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday produced Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court in a money laundering case related to the now scrapped Delhi excise policy. The BRS leader has termed her arrest “illegal”.
“My arrest is illegal,” she told reporters in the court.
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K Kavitha was arrested by the ED and brought to Delhi on Friday. According to the central probe agency, she allegedly paid kickbacks to several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders before the formulation of the excise policy.
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She will be further questioned in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case.
Advocate Vikram Chaudhari, representing the BRS leader submitted before the court that Kavitha’s arrest violated the Supreme Court order.
“This arrest is a blatant abuse of power. They have clearly violated the Supreme Court orders which have protected us,” Choudhari submitted before the court.
Meanwhile, the BRS has stepped up it’s attack on Modi government and held state-wide protests against Kavitha’s arrest.
BRS claimed that it’s Nalgonda district president and former legislator Ramawat Ravindra Kumar was arrested by the police while protesting against the arrest.
In other related news, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also appeared physically before the Rouse Avenue Court in connection with ED’s complaint over non-compliance of summons in the liquor policy case.
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