Subhechcha Ganguly 
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a special court on Friday that BRS leader K Kavitha, an accused in the Delhi excise policy case, allegedly threatened Aurobindo Pharma’s promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy to cough up ₹25 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party in exchange for five retail zones in the national capital. The CBI was requesting custody of Kavitha. Later, the judge placed her under CBI custody through April 15.
In the liquor policy case, Sharath Chandra Reddy, a co-accused under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate, has become an approver. Reddy only engaged in the alcohol business in Delhi at the “insistence and assurance” of K Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the CBI informed special court Kaveri Baweja, according to PTI.”K Kavitha also informed Sharath Chandra Reddy that in order to obtain liquor business, the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi government needed to receive upfront payments of 25 crores for wholesale business and 5 crores for each retail zone. Her associates, Arun R. Pillai and Abhishek Boinpally, would then work with Vijay Nair to arrange these payments.
K Kavitha was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate in March. Days after questioning her, on Thursday, the CBI detained her. Even in the face of evidence, the agency maintained that she had not responded to its questions.According to the agency, K Kavitha’s associates, Arun R Pillai, Abhishek Boinpally, and Butchibabu Gorantla, stayed at the Hotel Oberoi in Delhi between March and May 2021 in order to add clauses that benefited them to the now-canceled policy.
