ED had also given notice to K Kavita for questioning on March 16, but...

New Delhi:

Kavita, daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, has reached the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for questioning.

The Enforcement Directorate is questioning Kavita for the second time today in the alleged liquor scam.

Earlier, he has been questioned once in this matter for 9 hours.

ED had also given notice to Kavita for questioning on March 16, but she did not turn up.

Meanwhile, she went to the Supreme Court and demanded that the ED's notice be declared illegal.

He also said that being a woman, she should not be called to the ED office if she is questioned at home.

The Supreme Court had refused to stay his interrogation by the ED for the time being.

The Supreme Court will hear about this on March 22.

The ED had registered a money laundering case last August after taking cognizance of the CBI's FI.

In this case, K Kavita is considered a part of the South Liquor lobby.

K Kavitha's questioning is taking place at a time when the ED has taken former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and K Kavitha's alleged business partner Arun Ramachandra Pillai into custody.

Arun Ramachandra Pillai has now claimed that he wants to retract his statement, which was recorded by the ED between November-December 2022. 

what will happen today


K Kavita can be confronted with the bank statement and shares documents of Indospirits.

There will be inquiries about the meetings held in Delhi Hyderabad.

The information of the South Group who stayed in a five star hotel will be taken and inquiries will be made about the photocopy draft excise policy.

How was the draft excise policy in the phones of some of the accused.

The statements of the arrested accused will be confronted.

The ED, in its prosecution complaint, has alleged how Kavita surreptitiously bought shares of liquor maker Indospirits through her associate Arun Ramachandra Pillai.

K Kavita reportedly controlled 65% of the shares of Indospirits.

Later Indospirits entered the retail business, thus Dakshin Group controlled 9 out of 32 retail zones.

What has happened till now…


CBI has already interrogated Kavita in this excise scam.

This inquiry took place at his residence in Hyderabad in the month of December last year.

In this case CBI

Kavita's former auditor Buchi Babu was arrested.

It is alleged that K.K.

Kavita also had a role.

Apart from these, the remaining members of this South group were- Abhishek Boinapalli, P Sarath Reddy, Benoy Babu, Raghav Reddy, son of Muganta S Reddy.

The role of Kavita has also been mentioned in the remand copy of Manish Sisodia.

Accordingly, there were Sarath Reddy, Magunta Reddy, Raghava Magunta and K Kavitha in the South Lobby, who were being represented by Arun Pillai, Abhishek Bonipalli and Buchi Babu.


After this, in the new policy, the wholesaler's margin was reduced from 6% to 12% and the new excise policy was introduced with 185% margin to the retailer.

It is believed that out of 12 percent, 6 percent money was decided to go to the leaders of Aam Aadmi Party in the form of black money.

For this, South Group gave Rs 100 crore advance kickback to Vijay Nair.

Vijay Nair was handling everything on behalf of the Aam Aadmi Party.

In return, South Lobby was given 65% stake in Sameer Mahendru's Indospirit.

Whole sale was on Indospirt.

Through Indospirt, all of them got entry in retail business despite being a manufacturer of liquor.

It is alleged that K.

Kavitha was part of the same group from South, which had given a bribe of Rs 100 crore to Vijay Nair through Dinesh Arora.