<p>The Enforcement Directorate has summoned BRS leader and the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, K Kavitha, at its Delhi office on Friday for questioning in connection with the excise policy case in the national capital, officials said.</p><p>Kavitha was questioned several times at the ED headquarters in March and had to submit her mobile phones to the federal agency.</p><p>It is alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital.</p>.ED to probe own officials on money laundering charges in Delhi liquor policy 'bribery' case.<p>The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi Lieutenant Governor had recommended a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).</p><p>During its probe, the ED had recorded the statement of Butchibabu, an accountant allegedly linked to Kavitha, in which he had said, "There was political understanding between K Kavitha and the chief minister (Arvind Kejriwal) and deputy chief minister (Manish Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair on March 19-20, 2021".</p><p>Kavitha has asserted that she has done no wrong and accused the BJP-led Centre of "using" the ED as the saffron party could not gain a "backdoor entry" into Telangana.</p>
<p>The Enforcement Directorate has summoned BRS leader and the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, K Kavitha, at its Delhi office on Friday for questioning in connection with the excise policy case in the national capital, officials said.</p><p>Kavitha was questioned several times at the ED headquarters in March and had to submit her mobile phones to the federal agency.</p><p>It is alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital.</p>.ED to probe own officials on money laundering charges in Delhi liquor policy 'bribery' case.<p>The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi Lieutenant Governor had recommended a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).</p><p>During its probe, the ED had recorded the statement of Butchibabu, an accountant allegedly linked to Kavitha, in which he had said, "There was political understanding between K Kavitha and the chief minister (Arvind Kejriwal) and deputy chief minister (Manish Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair on March 19-20, 2021".</p><p>Kavitha has asserted that she has done no wrong and accused the BJP-led Centre of "using" the ED as the saffron party could not gain a "backdoor entry" into Telangana.</p>