NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court would take up on August 12, Monday a plea for bail made by Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader, K Kavitha in the cases filed by both the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the 2021-22 liquor policy scam.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan would to hear the matter on Monday, as to the Supreme Court’s causelist.
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Kavitha approached the top court challenging the Delhi High Court's order of July 01, which rejected her bail petition.
Kavitha was first arrested by the ED on the evening of March 15, 2024 from her Hyderabad residence.
The CBI took her into custody on April 11 in its separate case in the scam.
On July 1, HC's single judge bench Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma said there was no merit in the prayer made by the accused seeking bail in the case.
On May 6, Special Judge of CBI and ED cases, of the Rouse Avenue Court here in Delhi, Judge Kaveri Baweja dismissed Kavitha's bail plea in the excise case.
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She subsequently filed an appeal before the Delhi HC seeking bail and challenging the dismissal of bail.
The trial court had earlier too rejected her bail plea, after noting that her alleged complicity in the case could not be ruled out.
The ED claimed Kavitha was a key member of the "South Group", which has been accused of paying the ruling AAP in Delhi kickbacks of Rs 100 crore in return for a big share of liquor licences in the national capital.
Kavitha, 46, the daughter of the former Chief Minister of Telanagana, K Chandrashekar Rao, claimed innocence in the case.
The ED alleged that one of the accused in the case, Vijay Nair, received kickbacks to the tune of at least Rs 100 crores on behalf of AAP leaders from the "South Group", allegedly controlled by Sarath Reddy, Kavitha and Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy.
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