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  • Delhi Excise rip-off: Kavitha summoned once more after ED grills BRS chief for over 10 hours

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    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has as soon as once more summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha on Tuesday after the probing company wondered the Telangana MLC  for over 10 hours in connection along with her alleged function within the multi-crore Delhi excise coverage rip-off case on Monday.

    Kavitha, daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekhar Rao, left the ED place of business at round 9.15 pm waving the victory signal. She is predicted to seem sooner than the ED nowadays.

    Kavitha, daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, was once first wondered within the case on March 11 for with reference to 9 hours, following which she was once summoned once more on March 16. On the other hand, she skipped the deposition mentioning her pending plea sooner than the Ideal Court docket towards the ED motion. The ED rejected her explanation why and directed her to depose on March 20. The apex court docket will listen Kavitha’s petition on March 24.

    The central company has additionally filed a caveat within the SC, inquiring for that its submission be heard sooner than passing any order on her petition. The ED is wondering the 44-year-old Telangana baby-kisser over her alleged involvement within the Delhi liquor coverage method, her affiliation with different accused named within the chargesheet, and her hyperlink to the liquor cartel referred to as the South Team.

    Kavitha is being wondered over allegations of her involvement within the Delhi Excise coverage. The central company is probing her function within the South Team of liquor buyers, which has been touted as the largest beneficiary within the coverage, and her hyperlinks to a number of suspects named within the chargesheets.

    INTERVIEW | CBI, ED are prolonged fingers of BJP, Modi: KTR

    Kavitha reportedly is a key member of the South Team of liquor buyers which allegedly paid an advance of Rs 100 crore to safe beneficial tweaks within the coverage. The tweaks secured by way of South Team allegedly result in large cartelization at a couple of merchandising ranges violating ideas of the knowledgeable committee and in addition ended in the technology of providence get advantages to the liquor buyers thru higher commissions, portions of which was once paid again allegedly to AAP thru more than a few middlemen.

    The ED claims that a number of liquor buyers benefitted from the coverage and handed on a part of the providence beneficial properties to the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), which is in energy in Delhi, as advance. In the meantime, the Delhi govt exchequer had suffered an alleged lack of Rs 2873 crores within the wake of this excise coverage.

    The previous Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia, additionally the Excise Minister of the AAP-run govt then, has been accused of formulating, endorsing and enforcing the debatable coverage.

    In a comparable construction, a Delhi court docket on Monday prolonged the judicial custody of Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramachandran Pillai until April 3. Pillai, an alleged frontman of South Team, was once arrested in a money-laundering case associated with the Delhi excise coverage rip-off. It’s alleged that he’s Kavitha’s benami. Pillai owns a 32.5 consistent with cent stake within the trade entity that was once a big beneficiary of the Excise Coverage rip-off and Kavitha was once allegedly a big stakeholder in that entity.

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    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has as soon as once more summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha on Tuesday after the probing company wondered the Telangana MLC  for over 10 hours in connection along with her alleged function within the multi-crore Delhi excise coverage rip-off case on Monday.

    Kavitha, daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekhar Rao, left the ED place of business at round 9.15 pm waving the victory signal. She is predicted to seem sooner than the ED nowadays.

    Kavitha, daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, was once first wondered within the case on March 11 for with reference to 9 hours, following which she was once summoned once more on March 16. On the other hand, she skipped the deposition mentioning her pending plea sooner than the Ideal Court docket towards the ED motion. The ED rejected her explanation why and directed her to depose on March 20. The apex court docket will listen Kavitha’s petition on March 24.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The central company has additionally filed a caveat within the SC, inquiring for that its submission be heard sooner than passing any order on her petition. The ED is wondering the 44-year-old Telangana baby-kisser over her alleged involvement within the Delhi liquor coverage method, her affiliation with different accused named within the chargesheet, and her hyperlink to the liquor cartel referred to as the South Team.

    Kavitha is being wondered over allegations of her involvement within the Delhi Excise coverage. The central company is probing her function within the South Team of liquor buyers, which has been touted as the largest beneficiary within the coverage, and her hyperlinks to a number of suspects named within the chargesheets.

    INTERVIEW | CBI, ED are prolonged fingers of BJP, Modi: KTR

    Kavitha reportedly is a key member of the South Team of liquor buyers which allegedly paid an advance of Rs 100 crore to safe beneficial tweaks within the coverage. The tweaks secured by way of South Team allegedly result in large cartelization at a couple of merchandising ranges violating ideas of the knowledgeable committee and in addition ended in the technology of providence get advantages to the liquor buyers thru higher commissions, portions of which was once paid again allegedly to AAP thru more than a few middlemen.

    The ED claims that a number of liquor buyers benefitted from the coverage and handed on a part of the providence beneficial properties to the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), which is in energy in Delhi, as advance. In the meantime, the Delhi govt exchequer had suffered an alleged lack of Rs 2873 crores within the wake of this excise coverage.

    The previous Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia, additionally the Excise Minister of the AAP-run govt then, has been accused of formulating, endorsing and enforcing the debatable coverage.

    In a comparable construction, a Delhi court docket on Monday prolonged the judicial custody of Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramachandran Pillai until April 3. Pillai, an alleged frontman of South Team, was once arrested in a money-laundering case associated with the Delhi excise coverage rip-off. It’s alleged that he’s Kavitha’s benami. Pillai owns a 32.5 consistent with cent stake within the trade entity that was once a big beneficiary of the Excise Coverage rip-off and Kavitha was once allegedly a big stakeholder in that entity.

    READ MORE:

    BJP unleashing businesses on combatants to win elections: Kavitha

    Recent posters pop up, this time concentrated on Ok Kavitha observed in Hyderabad

    No query of extending enhance to Kavitha, says Congress

  • Delhi excise coverage case: BRS chief Kavitha puzzled by way of ED for 9 hrs, summoned once more

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    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha deposed sooner than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 9 hours on Saturday in reference to a cash laundering case related to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned.

    The 44-year-old daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao left the federal company’s headquarters round 8 pm after 9 hours of wondering and recording of her remark beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.

    The officers mentioned the BRS chief has been summoned once more on March 16 in reference to the case.

    Kavitha had the headquarters of the Directorate on Saturday round 11.15 am to reply to questions referring to her alleged position within the manipulation of  Liquor coverage to learn liquor buyers, together with her and the laundering of kickbacks generated following the tweaks within the coverage.

    There was once a heavy presence of Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces staff for barricading the ED place of job even because the supporters of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief staged a protest.

    #WATCH | Delhi: BRS MLC and Telangana CM’s daughter Ok Kavitha arrives at her place of dwelling after she was once puzzled by way of the ED officers associated with Delhi liquor coverage case. percent.twitter.com/8KQJ2l4ZOY

    — ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2023

    The BRS chief had skipped the March 9 summon, when the ED had referred to as her for wondering, mentioning her commitments to a political rally at Jantar Mantar searching for the advent and passage of the Girls’s Reservation Invoice, by way of the ruling BJP-led govt on the centre.

    The wondering of Kavitha coincides with the arrest of Delhi ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Hyderabad-based businessman Arun R Pillar – these days in ED custody, who in step with the company are deeply excited about tweaking the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22 thru a deliberate conspiracy to learn liquor buyers of the South Crew of which Kavitha was once section and siphoning the kickbacks out of the gadget.

    BRS MLC and Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter, Ok Kavitha leaves for the ED place of job. (Picture | Shekar Yadav, EPS)

    The coverage which was once allegedly tweaked and carried out by way of Sisodia because the Delhi excise minister led to large earnings for a liquor team known as South Crew and ended in earnings losses to the track of round 2973 crores to the Delhi Govt. The Excise coverage allegedly violated all provisions which have been supplied to safeguard the hobby of the Delhi govt and supply an even alternative to licensees and stakeholders the ED alleged.

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    Looking for the ex-Deputy CM’s remand, the ED on Friday mentioned Sisodia conspired with others to border a misguided excise coverage with the intention to generate kickbacks and proceeds of crime to the track of greater than Rs 290 crore. The ED claimed that to tweak the coverage to permit providence positive aspects to liquor buyers – violating a couple of provisions of the Excise Coverage to safeguard the Delhi exchequer’s hobby – the AAM birthday party thru its media supervisor Vijay Nair had gained Rs 100 crore “kickbacks” as advance from the ‘South Crew’. A unique courtroom remanded Sisodia to ED custody until March 17.

    About Pillai, the ED alleged that the Hyderabad-based businessman who was once the consultant of the South Crew was once allegedly concerned within the tweaking of the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22 on the formula level – by way of taking part with Vijay Nair – and was once one of the most beneficiaries of kickback cash which he laundered therefore.  He’s these days being interrogated in ED custody because the company secured his remand until March 13.

    In step with the ED, Pillai was once the 32.5 in line with cent proprietor of a entrance through which Kavitha had a considerable stake. He was once the consultant of the ‘South Crew’ of liquor buyers and was once a right away beneficiary of the kickback cash and was once additionally excited about laundering it.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha’s display of power forward of ED wondering

    The liquor buyers of the South Crew come with outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma and Kavitha herself.

    Pillai, ED alleged, gained the kickback cash amounting to a number of crores because of which the company has already connected a number of movable and immovable houses of Pillai and his spouse in Hyderabad and different puts value Rs. 5.72 crore as a part of its motion to get better the federal government cash which was once allegedly generated as kickback and laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    (with inputs from PTI)

    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha deposed sooner than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 9 hours on Saturday in reference to a cash laundering case related to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned.

    The 44-year-old daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao left the federal company’s headquarters round 8 pm after 9 hours of wondering and recording of her remark beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.

    The officers mentioned the BRS chief has been summoned once more on March 16 in reference to the case.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Kavitha had the headquarters of the Directorate on Saturday round 11.15 am to reply to questions referring to her alleged position within the manipulation of  Liquor coverage to learn liquor buyers, together with her and the laundering of kickbacks generated following the tweaks within the coverage.

    There was once a heavy presence of Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces staff for barricading the ED place of job even because the supporters of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief staged a protest.

    #WATCH | Delhi: BRS MLC and Telangana CM’s daughter Ok Kavitha arrives at her place of dwelling after she was once puzzled by way of the ED officers associated with Delhi liquor coverage case. percent.twitter.com/8KQJ2l4ZOY
    — ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2023
    The BRS chief had skipped the March 9 summon, when the ED had referred to as her for wondering, mentioning her commitments to a political rally at Jantar Mantar searching for the advent and passage of the Girls’s Reservation Invoice, by way of the ruling BJP-led govt on the centre.

    The wondering of Kavitha coincides with the arrest of Delhi ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Hyderabad-based businessman Arun R Pillar – these days in ED custody, who in step with the company are deeply excited about tweaking the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22 thru a deliberate conspiracy to learn liquor buyers of the South Crew of which Kavitha was once section and siphoning the kickbacks out of the gadget.

    BRS MLC and Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter, Ok Kavitha leaves for the ED place of job. (Picture | Shekar Yadav, EPS)

    The coverage which was once allegedly tweaked and carried out by way of Sisodia because the Delhi excise minister led to large earnings for a liquor team known as South Crew and ended in earnings losses to the track of round 2973 crores to the Delhi Govt. The Excise coverage allegedly violated all provisions which have been supplied to safeguard the hobby of the Delhi govt and supply an even alternative to licensees and stakeholders the ED alleged.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha has no ethical proper to call for Girls’s Invoice: BJP

    Looking for the ex-Deputy CM’s remand, the ED on Friday mentioned Sisodia conspired with others to border a misguided excise coverage with the intention to generate kickbacks and proceeds of crime to the track of greater than Rs 290 crore. The ED claimed that to tweak the coverage to permit providence positive aspects to liquor buyers – violating a couple of provisions of the Excise Coverage to safeguard the Delhi exchequer’s hobby – the AAM birthday party thru its media supervisor Vijay Nair had gained Rs 100 crore “kickbacks” as advance from the ‘South Crew’. A unique courtroom remanded Sisodia to ED custody until March 17.

    About Pillai, the ED alleged that the Hyderabad-based businessman who was once the consultant of the South Crew was once allegedly concerned within the tweaking of the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22 on the formula level – by way of taking part with Vijay Nair – and was once one of the most beneficiaries of kickback cash which he laundered therefore.  He’s these days being interrogated in ED custody because the company secured his remand until March 13.

    In step with the ED, Pillai was once the 32.5 in line with cent proprietor of a entrance through which Kavitha had a considerable stake. He was once the consultant of the ‘South Crew’ of liquor buyers and was once a right away beneficiary of the kickback cash and was once additionally excited about laundering it.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha’s display of power forward of ED wondering

    The liquor buyers of the South Crew come with outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma and Kavitha herself.

    Pillai, ED alleged, gained the kickback cash amounting to a number of crores because of which the company has already connected a number of movable and immovable houses of Pillai and his spouse in Hyderabad and different puts value Rs. 5.72 crore as a part of its motion to get better the federal government cash which was once allegedly generated as kickback and laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    (with inputs from PTI)

  • Sisodia quits Delhi executive after SC rejects his bail plea, Jain follows swimsuit

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    NEW DELHI:  Hours after the Ultimate Courtroom refused to entertain Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia’s petition difficult his arrest by means of the CBI within the liquor coverage rip-off, he and different incarcerated colleague Satyendar Jain resigned as ministers within the AAP govt. 

    Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal permitted the resignations. In a late-night announcement, Income Minister Kailash Gahlot used to be given further rate of finance, PWD, energy and residential held by means of Sisodia. The outgoing deputy CM’s different portfolios like schooling, well being and services and products had been allocated to Social Welfare Minister Raaj Kumar Anand as further rate.

    “The paintings of Delhi must now not be interrupted, so Kejriwal permitted the resignations,” mentioned AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh. Sisodia’s resignation got here a few days after his arrest whilst Jain installed his papers virtually 8 months after his arrest by means of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case associated with cash laundering.

    Sisodia used to be dealing with 18 of the full 33 departments of the Delhi govt. He used to be at once tracking a number of vital govt initiatives, together with streetscaping and visitors decongestion plans, forward of the G20 summit. He used to be additionally the executive face of the federal government.

    Within the SC, when suggest A M Singhvi discussed the subject prior to a bench of Leader Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, they mentioned Sisodia has choice treatments for buying the FIR quashed beneath Segment 482 CrPC. He too can observe for bail in a decrease court docket, the bench mentioned. “Simply because an incident occurs in Delhi doesn’t imply we’re approached. It’s going to set an excessively improper precedent,” Justice Narasimha mentioned.

    Singhvi argued that “The allegation is that there used to be coverage resolution taken the place he (Sisodia) used to be one rung out of the seven, together with the L-G. Energy of arrest does now not imply compulsion to arrest.”

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    NEW DELHI:  Hours after the Ultimate Courtroom refused to entertain Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia’s petition difficult his arrest by means of the CBI within the liquor coverage rip-off, he and different incarcerated colleague Satyendar Jain resigned as ministers within the AAP govt. 

    Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal permitted the resignations. In a late-night announcement, Income Minister Kailash Gahlot used to be given further rate of finance, PWD, energy and residential held by means of Sisodia. The outgoing deputy CM’s different portfolios like schooling, well being and services and products had been allocated to Social Welfare Minister Raaj Kumar Anand as further rate.

    “The paintings of Delhi must now not be interrupted, so Kejriwal permitted the resignations,” mentioned AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh. Sisodia’s resignation got here a few days after his arrest whilst Jain installed his papers virtually 8 months after his arrest by means of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case associated with cash laundering.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Sisodia used to be dealing with 18 of the full 33 departments of the Delhi govt. He used to be at once tracking a number of vital govt initiatives, together with streetscaping and visitors decongestion plans, forward of the G20 summit. He used to be additionally the executive face of the federal government.

    Within the SC, when suggest A M Singhvi discussed the subject prior to a bench of Leader Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, they mentioned Sisodia has choice treatments for buying the FIR quashed beneath Segment 482 CrPC. He too can observe for bail in a decrease court docket, the bench mentioned. “Simply because an incident occurs in Delhi doesn’t imply we’re approached. It’s going to set an excessively improper precedent,” Justice Narasimha mentioned.

    Singhvi argued that “The allegation is that there used to be coverage resolution taken the place he (Sisodia) used to be one rung out of the seven, together with the L-G. Energy of arrest does now not imply compulsion to arrest.”

    Blow to AAP nationwide enlargement? 
    Sisodia’s arrest and resignation may have an effect on the AAP’s nationwide enlargement plans forward of the 2024 LS polls. The BJP hopes it’s going to tie down Kejriwal to Delhi and Punjab

  • Delhi excise coverage rip-off: Court docket seeks CBI’s reaction on businessman Abhishek Boinpally’s bail plea 

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    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket on Saturday sought the CBI’s reaction at the bail utility moved through Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally in reference to a case associated with the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off.

    The company had arrested Boinpally previous this month at the allegation of lobbying in Delhi’s Excise Coverage.

    Particular Pass judgement on MK Nagpal issued understand to the CBI and directed the company to document its reaction through November 4, when the court docket will additional listen the subject.

    The CBI had previous instructed the court docket that Abhishek has been arrested within the ongoing investigation after it used to be printed during the statements of witnesses and the perusal of Financial institution accounts that he used to be a part of repeated conferences at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad with different accused individuals and different liquor buyers in reference to the system of liquor coverage.

    He used to be a part of the conspiracy in pursuance of which he transferred cash thru hawala channels to co-accused Vijay Nair during the different co-accused Dinesh Arora previous to the implementation of the coverage all the way through the duration November 2021 to July 2022, the CBI alleged.

    The cash transferred through the co-accused Sameer Mahendru of M/s Indospirits has additionally after all landed within the account of Abhishek Boinpally and he has now not been in a position to satisfactorily give an explanation for in regards to the receipt of stated cash, it stated.

    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket on Saturday sought the CBI’s reaction at the bail utility moved through Hyderabad-based businessman Abhishek Boinpally in reference to a case associated with the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off.

    The company had arrested Boinpally previous this month at the allegation of lobbying in Delhi’s Excise Coverage.

    Particular Pass judgement on MK Nagpal issued understand to the CBI and directed the company to document its reaction through November 4, when the court docket will additional listen the subject.

    The CBI had previous instructed the court docket that Abhishek has been arrested within the ongoing investigation after it used to be printed during the statements of witnesses and the perusal of Financial institution accounts that he used to be a part of repeated conferences at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad with different accused individuals and different liquor buyers in reference to the system of liquor coverage.

    He used to be a part of the conspiracy in pursuance of which he transferred cash thru hawala channels to co-accused Vijay Nair during the different co-accused Dinesh Arora previous to the implementation of the coverage all the way through the duration November 2021 to July 2022, the CBI alleged.

    The cash transferred through the co-accused Sameer Mahendru of M/s Indospirits has additionally after all landed within the account of Abhishek Boinpally and he has now not been in a position to satisfactorily give an explanation for in regards to the receipt of stated cash, it stated.