The MLC daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, K Kavitha, submitted all the phones she has used so far as she walked in for the third round of questioning in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) New Delhi office on Tuesday.
The 44-year-old BRS leader was seen brandishing the phones in front of media people before entering the ED office. Kavitha also submitted a letter addressed to the ED officials.
“These phones are submitted without prejudice to my right and contentions and larger contention whether a women’s phone can be intruded, in the teeth of her right to privacy,” she mentioned in the letter.
“For the record, the first time I was called by the agency was in the month of March 2023, therefore, I have reasons to believe, that accusation made against me in November 2022 were not only malafide, misconceived, but also prejudicial,” she mentioned.
Saying that the ‘false’ accusations against her had led to a political slugfest, added that her political adversaries had been flaunting the accusations to accuse her of destroying the so-called evidence.
“It is unfortunate that a premier agency like Enforcement Directorate is becoming privy and party to these acts and sabotaging and sacrificing its sacrosanct duty of free and fair investigation at the altar of vested political interest,” she wrote.
She has spent around 18-19 hours at the ED headquarters in central Delhi during her two appearances on March 11 and March 20.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader exited the agency office around 9:15 pm on Monday after she was questioned and her statement was recorded as investigators, as per sources, put across around a dozen questions to her.
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Kavitha is also understood to have been confronted with the statements made by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an arrested accused in the case who allegedly shares close ties with her, apart from those of a few others involved in the case.
The politician has asserted that she had done nothing wrong and alleged that the BJP-led Centre was “using” the ED as the saffron party could not gain a “backdoor entry” into Telangana.
Pillai, the ED had said, “represented the South Group”, an alleged liquor cartel linked to Kavitha and others, that paid kickbacks amounting to about Rs 100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to gain a larger share of the market in the national capital under the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2020-21.
