TRS MLC Kavitha will meet CBI officials at her Banjara Hills for questioning related to the Delhi liquor scam.
TRS MLC K Kavitha with supporters outside her residence in Hyderabad. (Supplied)
Consenting to the request of TRS MLC Kalakuntla Kavitha, the CBI on Tuesday, 6 December, wrote to her that they would like to meet her on 11 December, one of the five dates she had suggested for their meeting, to seek answers from her in regard to the Delhi liquor scam.
In the letter, Raghavendra Vatsa, head of branch/DIG, CBI, Anti Corruption Bureau, Delhi, said that a CBI team will visit her at her Banjara Hills residence at 11 am on that day.
He stated that the purpose of the meeting was to “examine” her and “record” her statement (in connection with the liquor scam).
Vatsava did not describe the case, but referred to it as RS 0032022A0053 of CBI, ACB, Delhi.
He sought confirmation of her availability at the designated time and date
The CBI’s communication was in reply to the missive the TRS MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter sent of Monday that she would be free to see them on any day between 11 and 15 December, except for 13 December.
She politely declined to meet them on 6 December, the date the CBI had suggested, because she was preoccupied with other engagements.
As the notice given to her was under section 160 of the CrPC, the meeting might pass off as a routine recording of a statement, treating her as a witness.
Kavitha, in her letter, had pointed out that neither the FIR that the CBI had registered in the Delhi liquor scam case, nor the complaint that the Ministry of Home Affairs had lodged with the agency had her name anywhere in any way.
By saying so, she implied that she had no knowledge of the scam.
Even when the CBI officials try to elicit any details, she might say she is unaware of it as she had nothing to do with it. As of now, the CBI has nothing against her, except the Enforcement Directorate (ED) mentioning her name in its remand report, submitted to the Rouse Avenue District Court in Delhi at the time of producing Amit Arora, one of the accused in the case.
The ED had said in the remand report that she was part of a “South Group” that had paid ₹100 crore in kickbacks to Vijay Nair of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and that she had changed and destroyed several phones which had denied them access to the data on them which may have helped them in taking the investigation forward.
“As per the investigation carried out so far, Vijay Nair, on behalf of leaders of AAP, has received kickbacks to the tune of at least ₹100 crore from a group, called South Group (controlled by Sarath Reddy, Ms K Kavitha, Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy) by various persons including Amit Arora,” the ED had said in the remand report.
Kavitha had already indicated in her mail on Monday that she would meet them “without prejudice to my legal rights available under law”.
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