Magunta Raghava, son of a YSRCP MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy, has been sent to 10-day ED custody in a Delhi excise policy case.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 11, 2023 18:30 IST
YSR Congress Party MP’s son was arrested in Delhi excise policy case on Saturday (Photo: File)
By Akshay Dongare: YSRCP MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy’s son, Magunta Raghava, has been sent to 10-day Enforcement Directorate custody in a Delhi liquor scam. He was arrested on Friday evening.
Earlier in the day, he was produced before Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi.
Magunta Raghava’s arrest comes days after a Telangana-based chartered accountant, former auditor of KCR’s daughter K Kavitha, Butchibabu Gorantla, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Delhi liquor case. The agency claimed that Gorantla was evasive and was not cooperating with investigators.
Earlier, K Kavitha was questioned by a CBI team in Hyderabad on December 12 for over seven hours in connection with the case. The agency had alleged that K Kavitha was part of the “South Cartel” that benefited from kickbacks in the liquor policy case.
The Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday sent Businessman Gautam Malhotra, son of former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Deep Malhotra, and Telangana CM’s daughter K Kavitha’s auditor to ED and CBI remand respectively in the Delhi excise policy case.
The ED, till now, has filed two charge sheets or prosecution complaints in this case and has arrested a total of nine people. The ED’s money laundering case stems from the CBI FIR.
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and other excise officials of the government were named as accused in the CBI and the ED complaints.
The Delhi excise policy for 2021-22 was scrapped in August last year and the Delhi lieutenant governor later asked the CBI to probe the alleged irregularities. Both the agencies registered separate cases with Sisodia being the accused number one.
The liquor scheme came under the scanner after L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
The Delhi Excise Policy, implemented on November 17 last year, was scrapped by the Arvind Kejriwal government in July this year following a CBI probe into its implementation. The ED is investigating the money trail in the alleged scam.
Earlier in September, the ED raided an audit firm in Chennai’s T Nagar which is suspected to be associated with YSRCP MP Srinivasalu Reddy in connection with the scam.
