2024-04-15 05:23:29
New Delhi: BRS leader K in Delhi liquor scam case. The difficulties of poetry are continuously increasing. CBI has revealed an important secret before the court. CBI told the court that BRS leader K. Kavitha had allegedly ‘threatened’ Aurobindo Pharma promoter Sharat Chandra Reddy to give a sum of Rs 25 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party for five retail areas allotted to his company under the excise policy of the Delhi government. According to the CBI, Kavitha had told Reddy that his business in Telangana and Delhi would suffer if he did not give money to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital.
Reddy, accused in a money laundering case related to the alleged liquor scam in Delhi, has turned approver in the case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating this matter. CBI has not yet filed any chargesheet against him. Seeking custodial interrogation of BRS leader Kavitha, CBI told Special Judge Kaveri Baweja that former Telangana Chief Minister K. ‘On the insistence and assurance’ of Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha, Reddy got involved in the liquor business in Delhi. Kavitha had reportedly assured Reddy that she had contacts in the Delhi government and she would help him in the liquor business in the national capital under the excise policy which has now been repealed.
What did CBI tell in the court?
CBI told the court on Friday, ‘Kavitha had told Sharat Chandra Reddy that to do liquor business, Aam Aadmi Party has to pay Rs 5 crore each for each retail area and the same payment was made to her associate Arun R Pillai. And it has to be done by Abhishek Boinpalli who in turn will coordinate with Vijay Nair who was the representative of Arvind Kejriwal (Chief Minister of Delhi). The court has sent Kavita to CBI custody till April 15.
- According to the investigating agency, when the excise policy was being prepared in March and May 2021, Pillai, Boinpalli and Buchibabu Gorantla stayed at the Oberoi Hotel in Delhi to sway the policy in their favor through Nair by adding some provisions. The CBI alleged that after receiving assurance of cooperation from Kavitha, Aurobindo Reality and Infrastructure Pvt Ltd had given Rs 80 lakh to NGO Telangana Jagriti under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in March 2021. He said, ‘Investigation revealed that in June-July 2021, K. Kavitha forced Sharat Chandra Reddy to enter into a sale agreement with her for an agricultural land situated in Mahaboob Nagar, Telangana even though he did not want to purchase that land and did not even know the value of the land.
- Kavita ‘insisted’ that Reddy pay Rs 14 crore in lieu of the land and hand it over to Mahira Ventures Pvt Ltd, one of the Aurobindo Group companies, in July 2021, the CBI told the court, quoting Reddy’s statement and its investigation. ‘Forced’ to enter into sale agreement through. She said a total of Rs 14 crore was paid to Kavita through bank transactions – Rs 7 crore in July 2021 and Rs 7 crore in November 2021. The agency alleged that in November and December 2021, Kavitha asked Reddy to pay Rs 25 crore for the five retail zones allotted to him.
- The BRS leader had claimed that he himself had paid an advance amount of Rs 100 crore to AAP through Nair on behalf of Reddy to get favorable provisions in the excise policy. Quoting Reddy’s statement, the agency alleged, ‘However, when Sharat Chandra Reddy refused to pay the money, K. Kavita had threatened to harm his business in Telangana and Delhi under the excise policy. On March 24, AAP had alleged that Reddy’s company had given Rs 59.5 crore to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) through electoral bonds.