Delhi excise policy case: BRS' Kavitha ‘threatened’ SC Reddy to pay money to AAP, CBI tells court

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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed a special court that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha allegedly "threatened" Aurobindo Pharma promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy to pay ₹25 crore to the AAP for the five retail zones allocated to his company as per the Delhi government's excise policy. According to the CBI, Kavitha had told Reddy that in case he did not pay the amount to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital, his business would be harmed in Telangana and Delhi, PTI reported.

Also Read: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court sends BRS leader K Kavitha to CBI custody till April 15 in Delhi excise policy case Reddy, who was an accused in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged liquor scam in Delhi, had turned an approver in the case that is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The CBI has yet to file a chargesheet against him.

Seeking the BRS leader's custodial interrogation, the CBI told Special Judge Kaveri Baweja that it was at the "insistence and assurance" of Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, that Reddy got involved in the liquor business in Delhi. Kavitha had allegedly assured Reddy that she had contacts in the Delhi government and that she would help him in the liquor business in the national capital under the now-scrapped excise policy.