{"id":52025,"date":"2024-04-15T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=52025"},"modified":"2024-04-15T05:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:42:19","slug":"court-remands-brs-leader-k-kavitha-to-judicial-custody-until-april-23-in-excise-scam-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/court-remands-brs-leader-k-kavitha-to-judicial-custody-until-april-23-in-excise-scam-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Remands BRS Leader K Kavitha to Judicial Custody Until April 23 in Excise Scam Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi, April 15:<\/strong> K Kavitha, a prominent figure in the BRS party and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, has been remanded to judicial custody until April 23 by a Delhi court. She was arrested in connection with a corruption case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. Kavitha was taken into custody from Tihar Jail, where she was detained following her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appearing before the court after the expiry of her three-day police custody, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) stated that further custodial interrogation was unnecessary. Kavitha&#8217;s legal representatives, Nitesh Rana and Deepak Nagar, contested the police&#8217;s plea, arguing that there were insufficient grounds to justify her continued detention as she is no longer required for interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kavitha had previously been questioned by CBI officials within the prison premises, with permission from a special court. This interrogation focused on WhatsApp conversations retrieved from co-accused Buchi Babu&#8217;s device and documents pertaining to a land transaction allegedly linked to a payment of Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), purportedly influencing the excise policy in favor of a liquor lobby in the national capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ED had initially apprehended Kavitha from her residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, on March 15. Since then, she has been in judicial custody in connection with the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, April 15: K Kavitha, a prominent figure in the BRS party and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, has been remanded to judicial custody until April 23 by a Delhi court. She was arrested in connection with a corruption case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. Kavitha was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1032,73,1033],"class_list":{"0":"post-52025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-earlypostdaily","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-latestnews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52027,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52025\/revisions\/52027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}