A Delhi Court on Monday denied interim bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K. Kavitha in the liquor policy scam case. Kavitha was remanded to 14-day judicial custody on April 2.
Kavitha sought an interim bail citing her 16-year-old son's examinations and said he needed his mother’s "moral and emotional support". Hearing the plea, Special CBI judge Kaveri Baweja dismissed Kavitha’s interim bail application. Kavitha was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15.
Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, has been accused of being a key member of the "South Group", which allegedly paid the ruling AAP in Delhi kickbacks of Rs 100 crore in return for a big share of liquor licences in the national capital under the now scrapped liquor policy.
The ED has also arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and a few other Aam Aadmi Party leaders in connection with the case.
-with PTI inputs.
