No one will be spared in Delhi liquor scam case, including Telangana CM’s daughter: Union Minister Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur was in Hyderabad to accompany BJP Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh as he went to file his nomination on Saturday.

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‘No one will be spared’

“Kavitha ji’s name is mentioned in the Delhi Excise Policy case and investigating agencies are probing the matter. If the former deputy chief minister of Delhi and Rajya Sabha MP were not spared, and when notice has been issued to Delhi Chief Minister (Arvind Kejriwal), then the day would not be far away for Kavitha also,” he said.

“No one will be spared. Whoever is involved… one by one their number will come and summons have already been issued to Kejriwal — the kingpin of the scam,” Thakur said.

He further said an investigation will be carried out over alleged corruption in the Kaleswaram irrigation project in Telangana, and strict action will be initiated.

“Their sins will cost them dearly, and their corruption will take them to jail,” the senior BJP leader claimed.

He added, “KCR, you can change your party’s name from TRS to BRS, but you cannot hide your corrupt face, and KCR cannot hide his family’s corruption.”

He attacked KCR saying he neither fulfilled his promises of giving jobs to youth nor gave a ₹3,000 unemployment allowance.

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Kavitha’s name mentioned

BRS leader and party MLC Kavitha’s name was mentioned in a charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi Excise Policy case.

The ED is investigating Kavitha for her alleged involvement in money laundering rooted in the implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy of 2021-22.

The Supreme Court on 26 September, ordered the Enforcement Directorate (ED) not to call her for questioning.

It also posted her plea against summoning by the ED in the Delhi Liquor Scam case to 20 November, in which a number of people — including former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia — are in jail.

In a press conference in Nizamabad recently after she received the latest ED summons, Kavitha had said: “Targeting the leaders of the ruling party using central investigation agencies is the modus operandi of the BJP in every poll-bound state,” adding that the summons was not “ED notice, but Modi notice”.

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The case

The ED and the CBI have alleged the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who paid bribes for licences. The AAP has strongly refuted the charge.

The excise policy was scrapped after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe into alleged corruption.

The ED had recently summoned Kejriwal for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam.

On 30 October, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea for bail by former deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia both in the alleged criminal case by the CBI and a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Delhi excise policy scam.

The court further directed to fastract the case.

The ED has claimed in one of the chargesheets that it has recorded the statement of Buchibabu, an accountant allegedly linked to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, in which he said “there was a political understanding between K Kavitha and the chief minister (Kejriwal) and (former) deputy chief minister (Manish Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair (AAP communications in-charge arrested in the case) on 19-20 March 2021”.

(With PTI inputs)