The Enforcement Directorate authorities, who are probing the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam, filed a supplementary charge sheet in the special court for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases at Rouse Avenue complex in New Delhi on Thursday.
Interestingly, the ED authorities have not mentioned Bharat Rashtra Samithi legislator and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, in the entire charge sheet.
Although the ED had grilled Kavitha twice in the past in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam and named her in the earlier charge sheets, it has conveniently ignored her name in the third and supplementary charge sheet.
The central agency, however, framed charges against Kavitha's alleged associate in the South Group, including Magunta Raghava, son of YSR Congress party MP from Ongole, Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy.
Besides, the ED also named Rajesh Joshi and Gautam Malhotra, who were arrested on February 7 and 8, respectively. Raghava was arrested on February 10.
The Special CBI court will take up the hearing on this supplementary charge sheet on April 14. It will decide whether this latest charge sheet will have to be taken into consideration or not.
However, the missing of Kavitha's name in the charge sheet, not even as a witness, has raised many eyebrows.
It is not immediately known whether the ED authorities are satisfied with the answers given by her during the interrogation or whether they would file a separate charge sheet against her.
But at least for now, the BRS leader is safe.
