New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it will file by August 22 its response on a bail plea filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha in an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
Apex Court sought responses from CBI, ED on Kavitha’s bail pleas on August 12
The apex court earlier on August 12 sought a response from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED on pleas filed by Kavitha seeking bail in the corruption and money laundering cases registered by the central agencies in connection with the alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the now-defunct Delhi Excise Policy.
CBI’s counter affidavit has been already filed, ASG Raju told Apex Court
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju, who appeared for the central agencies, told a bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan that the counter affidavit by the CBI on Kavitha’s bail plea in corruption case has already been filed and the counter affidavit of the ED on Kavitha’s bail plea in the money laundering case was in the “pipeline’ and it would be filed by August 22.
The bench then posted the matter for hearing on August 27.
Kavitha has moved the Apex Court against Delhi High Court orders
Kavitha, who is the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and a BRS MLC, has moved the apex court against the orders of the Delhi High Court denying her bail in both CBI and ED cases, saying no case for grant of regular bail to her was made for now in both the cases as the investigation is at a crucial stage.
Kavitha was arrested first by ED on March 15
Kavitha, who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in the judicial custody in corruption and money laundering cases in connection with the alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy “scam”, was first arrested by the ED in the money laundering case from her Hyderabad house on March 15 and later the CBI arrested her in the corruption case from Tihar Jail on April 11.
