On March 15, Kavitha was arrested in Hyderabad by the Enforcement Division on charges of money laundering, and she was placed under judicial custody at Tihar Jail.
K. Kavitha, a legislator for Bharat Rashtra Samithi, was detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on April 11 about the Delhi excise policy issue.
After being detained in Hyderabad on March 15 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on suspicion of money laundering, Ms. Kavitha was placed under judicial custody and sent to Tihar Jail. A special court gave the CBI permission to arrest her on April 10.
It has been alleged that Ms. Kavitha was part of a “South Group’ which paid ₹100 crore in advance as “kickbacks” through the then Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) communication and media in-charge Vijay Nair, who represented some AAP leaders.
According to the probe agencies, she and other members of the group had conspired with the top AAP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the then Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, to get favors in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy.
The CBI registered the case on August 17, 2022, against Mr. Sisodia and 14 others on a reference from the Union Home Ministry. It was alleged that the excise policy was tweaked to extend undue favors to license holders; the license fee was waived or reduced; and the L-1 (wholesaler) license was extended without the competent authority’s clearance.
The policy extended an extraordinarily high-profit margin of 12% for wholesalers and almost 185% profit margin for retailers.
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Instead of the alleged ₹100-crore “kickbacks”, the “South Group” partners were given 65% stakes in Indo Spirits company for the recovery of payments. These stakes were controlled through “false representation, concealment of true ownership and proxies”, as alleged.
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