Delhi court denies interim bail to BRS’s K Kavitha in liquor policy case

A Delhi court on Monday refused to grant interim bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha in connection with the liquor excise policy case, Bar and Bench reported.

Special judge Kaveri Baweja of the Rouse Avenue Courts had reserved its order on Kavitha’s interim bail petition on April 4.

Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate from her Hyderabad residence on March 15. On March 26, she was sent to judicial custody till April 9 after the agency said that her further custodial interrogation was not required.

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, representing Kavitha, referred to Section 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and said that it allowed courts to grant interim relief to women accused in such cases despite the rigorous bail conditions under the Act.

He said that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader’s 16-year-old son was currently writing his examinations and would need his mother for emotional support.

“Think of the shock of the arrest of mother on child,” Singhvi told the court. “The ecosystem of a mother being there is different.”

Singhvi said that while the child is in Telangana, Kavitha’s husband is also in Delhi to fight the legal battles.

Advocate Zoheb Hossain, representing the Enforcement Directorate, said that the exception under the...

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