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Today, On 13th May, The Delhi court set to hear the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) charge sheet against K. Kavitha in the Excise Case on May 14. This hearing marks a significant legal development in the ongoing case. K. Kavitha’s involvement in the case has attracted public and media attention. The outcome of this hearing could have implications for the future proceedings.
New Delhi: A Delhi court, On Tuesday, expected to hear a new charge sheet submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy. The charge sheet names K Kavitha, a leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party, along with four others as accused.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who presides over ED and CBI cases, scheduled to consider the charge sheet on Monday but postponed it until May 14. The ED filed the charge sheet, which consists of nearly 200 pages and annexures, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Friday.
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K Kavitha, who a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of the BRS party, three employees of Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd (a company involved in the Aam Aadmi Party’s Goa campaign), namely Damodar Sharma, Prince Kumar, and Chanpreet Singh, as well as Arvind Singh, a former employee of India Ahead news channel, have been named as accused in the latest charge sheet.
Kavitha, aged 46 and the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, arrested by the ED on March 15 at her residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. Chanpreet arrested on April 15, and the agency alleges that he managed cash funds for AAP’s 2022 Goa assembly campaign. The three employees of Chariot Productions also implicated in the movement and handling of funds alleged to be bribes, which were paid by the ‘South Group’ through ‘Angadiyas’ and the hawala route for the party’s Goa campaign.
Arvind Singh, the commercial head and production controller of India Ahead, previously arrested by the CBI in May of the previous year for his alleged involvement in the transfer of these funds, which have been referred to as kickbacks in this scam.
This marks the seventh charge sheet filed by the ED in this case, with a total of 18 individuals having been arrested thus far, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday.
According to the ED, Kavitha, a key member of the ‘South Group,‘ which stands accused of providing the Aam Aadmi Party with alleged kickbacks worth Rs 100 crore in exchange for a significant portion of liquor licenses in the national capital as part of the now defunct Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.
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The agency previously stated,
“Kavitha was one of the masterminds, a key conspirator, and a beneficiary of the Delhi excise policy scam.”
The excise case involves allegations of corruption and money laundering in the development and implementation of the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, V K Saxena, recommended a CBI investigation into the alleged irregularities.
Subsequently, the ED initiated its money laundering case on August 22, 2022, based on the CBI’s First Information Report (FIR) lodged on August 17, 2022.
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