New Delhi:

BRS leader K Kavitha, who was arrested in a money laundering case related to the Delhi liquor policy scam, on Saturday moved the city court urging it to quash the order allowing the CBI to interrogate her in Tihar jail.

The CBI is probing the corruption angle in the liquor policy case.

Ms Kavitha’s defense lawyer Nitesh Rana told the court that due process of law had been impeded by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking permission to question her “behind her back”.

“I am very concerned that the CBI may not have revealed the true facts to obtain a favorable order from the court,” Rana said.

He urged the court to uphold Friday’s order allowing a stay on Ms Kavitha’s judicial custody pending her hearing.

After the CBI sought time to reply to Ms Kavitha’s plea, the court heard the submission and referred the matter for hearing on April 10.

However, Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who is presiding over the ED and CBI cases, did not grant any interim relief to Ms. Kavitha.

Rana later told PTI that although the court did not quash the order, under judicial discipline the investigating agency had to refrain from enforcing it as Ms Kavitha’s application was pending before a judge.

Ms. Kavitha was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 15 from her residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, in a money laundering case.

The MP from Telangana on Thursday urged the court to extend her interim bail as her 16-year-old son needs his mother’s “moral and emotional support” to appear for exams. The judge has kept the plea order in place until April 8.

Ms Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, has been accused of being a key member of the “South Group” which allegedly paid Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to Delhi’s ruling AAP in exchange for Most liquor licenses. in the nation’s capital. She was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Tuesday last week.

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