NEW DELHI: BRS leader K Kavitha had allegedly “threatened” Aurobindo Pharma Promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy to pay Rs 25 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party for five retail zones allotted to his firm under the Delhi government’s excise policy, the CBI told Special Court on Friday, while seeking her custody.
Kavitha had told Reddy that in case of non-payment of money his business will be harmed in Telangana and Delhi under the Excise policy, the CBI has alleged.
Reddy, who was an accused under the PMLA case probed by the Enforcement Directorate, had turned an approver in the case. He has not been charged sheeted by the CBI yet.
Seeking custodial interrogation of Kavitha, the CBI told Special Judge Kaveri Baweja that it was on the “insistence and assurance” of Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, that Reddy participated in the liquor business in the national capital.
She assured him that she had contacts in the Delhi government and that she would help him in liquor business in Delhi under the new excise policy.
“Kavitha further told Sharath Chandra Reddy that the payments of upfront money of Rs 25 crores for wholesale business and Rs 5 crores for each retail zone were to be made to the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi Government for getting liquor business and the same was to be paid to her associates Arun R.Pillai and Abhishek Boinpally, who would in turn coordinate with Vijay Nair, who was a representative of Arvind Kejriwal,” the CBI has alleged.
Earlier in the day, a Delhi court sent K Kavitha to CBI custody till April 15 in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
The agency has alleged that in March and May 2021, when the excise policy was being formulated, Kavitha’s associates Arun R Pillai, Abhishek Boinpally and Butchibabu Gorantla stayed at Hotel Oberoi in Delhi to swing the policy in their favour through Vijay Nair by inserting provisions.
After receiving assurance of support from Kavitha, Aurobindo Reality and Infrastructure Pvt.Ltd paid Rs 80 lakh to her NGO Telangana Jagruthi, under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in March 2021, the CBI alleged.
“The investigation has further revealed that in June-July 2021, K Kavitha had compelled Sharath Chandra Reddy to enter into a sale agreement with her for an agricultural land situated at Mahboob Nagar, Telangana, although, he was not keen to purchase the said agriculture land and also not aware of the value of the said land,” it said.
