MLC K Kavitha reached the ED Office

MLC K Kavitha | Delhi, Hyderabad, March 20: BRS leader and MLC K Kavitha reached the ED office. Accompanied by her husband Anil Kumar, she arrived ED office here on Monday.

Ms. K Kavitha reached Delhi on a special chartered flight from Hyderabad on Sunday evening.

It is to mention here that on Saturday, another accused, YSR Congress MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, skipped the ED summons.

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The Ongole MP said he couldn’t attend the interrogation due to personal reasons and said he would appear soon. Magunta was reportedly in Chennai attending to a health issue of a family member. ED had earlier conducted searches on his offices and residences in Hyderabad, Nellore, and Chennai.

It is the second time Kavitha appeared before ED in a money laundering case. ED is probing a money laundering case after Delhi Liquor Scam came to light.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a caveat application in the Supreme Court on the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha’s plea challenging the summons issued by the probe agency against her in connection to the Delhi excise policy case. A Caveat application is filed by a litigant to ensure that no adverse order is passed against them without being heard.

MLC K Kavitha, who is the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, has approached the Supreme court saying that as per norms, a woman cannot be summoned for questioning before ED in office and her questioning should take place at her residence.

MLC K Kavitha

On March 15, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Kavitha’s plea challenging the summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 24.ED has asked the MLC to appear again before it on March 16, but she did not appear citing that her plea is pending in SC.

The court has agreed to hear her petition on March 24 in connection with a money laundering case related to the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy case. The advocate for Kavitha said that a woman is now being summoned by ED for questioning and that it is “completely against the law”.

Kavitha’s lawyer mentioned the plea before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and sought an urgent hearing on her petitions. The court agreed to list it on March 24.

The court asked what was the urgency of the matter, and the lawyer replied that Kavitha has been asked to appear before ED. In a petition filed through advocate Vandana Sehgal, Kavitha has urged the top court to quash the ED summons dated March 7 and 11, stating that asking her to appear before the agency office instead of her residence is contrary to the settled tenets of criminal jurisprudence and thus, wholly unsustainable in law being violative of the Proviso to Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973.

She has also sought that all procedures carried out by ED, including those in relation to the recording of statements be audio or videographed in the presence of her lawyer at a visible distance inter-alia by way of installation of appropriate CCTV cameras.

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