Kavitha sent to judicial custody till April 23
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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday sent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K. Kavitha to judicial custody till April 23, after the CBI claimed that she did not cooperate with the probe and gave evasive replies contrary to the evidence on record.
In the money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam, Kavitha, who is the daughter of former Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court on the expiry of her previously granted Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja sent her to jail in CBI's case till April 23, when her custody in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) case will also end.
The central probe agency on Monday sought her judicial custody arguing that she could not give a proper explanation for the transfer of Rs.14 crore from the company of Aurobindo Pharma's promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy in the guise of the land deal, and her meetings with the accused Vijay Nair, Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy.
The agency also claimed that she could not explain the transfer of money to her by the accused Butchi Babu Gorantla, and other acts related to the criminal conspiracy in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi excise policy 2021-22 25.
