The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday grilled Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) leader K Kavitha for over nine hours after she appeared at the agency headquarters for the third round of questioning in the money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy case.
Till now, the ED had subjected her to questioning for 27-28 hours during her three appearances on March 11, March 20 and Tuesday (March 21). In the first chargesheet filed by the agency, it alleged that she was using two mobile phones whose IMEI changed 10 times. Before her appearance at agency’s office, the MLC daughter of Telangana Chief Minister KC Rao shot off a letter to ED stating, “These phones are submitted without prejudice to my right and contentions and larger contentions whether a woman’s phone can be intruded, in the teeth of her right to privacy”.
Flashing some mobile phones wrapped in a transparent sheet, the BRS leader said she was going to submit them to the ED. Referring to the charge of changing IMEI numbers 10 times, she said, “It is baffling to note as to how, why and under what circumstances the agency made such allegations when I was not even summoned or asked any questions.” Accusing the agency of making insinuations the leader said she was submitting the phones to dispel any notion or “adverse impression” that the agency is trying to create.