Delhi Liquor Scam: On April 23, the Delhi Rouse Avenue Court sent BRS leader K Kavitha to judicial custody until April 23 in the matter related to the Delhi liquor excise policy scam case. The case registered by CBI concerns the alleged irregularities in the formation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi liquor excise policy 2021-22.

According to reports, the CBI presented K Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, before the court on the expiry of her three-day police custody granted earlier by the judge and sought her judicial custody.

Advocate Nitesh Rana, representing Kavitha along with Deepak Nagar, opposed the police plea, saying the grounds were not sufficient to keep her in custody since she is no longer required for custodial interrogation.

In a recent move, the CBI questioned Kavitha in a matter related to some WhatsApp chats recovered from co-accused Buchi Babu’s phone. As per the reports she was also interrogated over documents related to a land deal, after which an amount of ₹100 crore was allegedly paid to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in kickbacks to swing the excise policy in favour of a liquor lobby.

The CBI informed the Special Court back on April 13 and said, “the BRS leader “threatened” Aurobindo Pharma promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy to pay ₹25 crore to the AAP for the five retail zones allocated to his company under Delhi’s new excise policy.”

CBI alleged that Kavitha had told Reddy that if he did not pay the amount to the AAP government in the national capital, his business would be harmed in Telangana and Delhi.