SC issues notices to CBI, ED on Kavitha’s bail pleas

New Delhi, August 12

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate on BRS leader K Kavitha’s petitions seeking bail in money laundering and corruption cases linked to the Delhi excise policy scam.

A Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan asked both probe agencies to respond to Kavitha’s petitions challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict denying her bail in the corruption and money laundering cases and posted the matter for further hearing on August 20.

On behalf of Kavitha, senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi submitted that Kavitha had already spent five months in jail.

The High Court on July 1 dismissed her bail pleas in corruption and money laundering cases, saying she was prima facie one of the main conspirators in the criminal conspiracy related to the formation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. — TNS