ED accusations prejudiced, misconceived, says Kavitha before appearing for 3rd round of questioning

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Kavitha sends letter to ED

Minutes later, the BRS released a copy of a letter that Kavitha handed over to the ED in which she tried to call the investigation agency’s bluff.

In her letter, addressed to ED’s Assistant Director Jogender at Pravartan Bhavan, in Delhi, she said: “…..despite the actions of the agency (ED) being ex-facie, I am today submitting before your good self all the earlier phones that I may have used in the past, and as sought by you, which I could gather.

“The phones are submitted without prejudice to my right and contentions whether a women’s phone can be intruded, in the teeth of her right to privacy.”

ఈడి దర్యాప్తు అధికారి జోగేంద్ర కు ఎమ్మెల్సీ @RaoKavitha సంచలన లేఖ

– ఫోన్ల ధ్వంసం ఆరోపణ చేయడాన్ని తీవ్రంగా తప్పుపట్టిన కల్వకుంట్ల కవిత

– ఈడి దురుద్దేశపూర్వకంగా వ్యవహరిస్తున్నప్పటికీ కూడా నేను గతంలో వాడిన ఫోన్లను సమర్పిస్తున్నాను pic.twitter.com/QcjJCOC401

— BRS Party (@BRSparty) March 21, 2023

Kavitha emerged from her father KCR’s residence on Tuglaq Road in Delhi at about 11.30, waving at the milling BRS workers outside as a large posse of policemen was trying to push them back to prevent them from falling over her.

The media persons too were kept at bay and were not allowed to cross the cordon to take any quotes.

Related: KCR writes letter to BRS cadres as ED threat hangs over Kavitha

ED claimed phones destroyed

Only yesterday, the ED team grilled Kavitha for close to 10 hours for her alleged role in the Delhi liquor scam and it appears the agency had asked her to submit her phones to them if her version that she did not destroy any phones was true.

The ED in the charge sheets filed with Delhi Rouse Avenue District Court in Delhi in the past, while explaining how the scam took place, mentioned Kavitha’s name and said two SIMS were used on 10 phones during the time when the excise policy was being rewritten — and that these were destroyed with an intention to obliterate the evidence of her involvement.

In her letter to the ED on Tuesday, Kavitha took the agency to task.

She said: “I may take the opportunity to point out the glaring act of malice on the part of the agency when it has chosen to make insinuations against me in the prosecution complaint qua some other accused in November 2022, alleging that certain phones stand destroyed. It is baffling to note how, why, and under what circumstances the agency made such an allegation when I was not even summoned or asked any questions whatsoever.”

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‘Prejudiced accusations’

She said that the first time she was summoned by the agency was earlier this month, which made her believe that the accusations against her in November 2022 were not only malafide and misconceived, but also prejudicial.

She also accused the ED of leaking information to the media.

She said: “The deliberate leakage of the false accusations to the public has led to a political slugfest, wherein my political adversaries have been flaunting the accusations, to accuse me of destroying the so-called evidence and causing great harm to my reputation and attempting to defame me, my political party as well as to lower my image in the eyes of the public at large.”

She questioned the ED on how it could resort to this type of investigation.

She said: “It is unfortunate that a premier agency like the ED is becoming privy and party to these acts and is sabotaging and sacrificing its sacrosanct duty of free and fair investigation at the altar of vested political interest.”

She said that she was surrendering the impugned phones to the ED to dispel any notion and adverse impression that the agency is trying to create.