ED files caveat in SC on K Kavitha’s plea challenging summons against her

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a caveat utility within the Supreme Court on the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC Ok Kavitha’s plea difficult the summons issued by the probe company in opposition to her in connection to Delhi excise coverage case.

A Caveat utility is filed by a litigant to make sure that no antagonistic order is handed in opposition to them with out being heard.

Kavitha, who’s the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, has approached the Supreme court saying that as per norms, a girl can’t be summoned for questioning earlier than ED in workplace and her questioning ought to happen at her residence.

On March 15, the Supreme Court agreed to listen to Kavitha’s plea difficult the summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 24.

ED has requested the MLC to look once more earlier than it on March 16, however she didn’t seem citing that her plea is pending in SC.

The courtroom has agreed to listen to her petition on March 24 in reference to a cash laundering case associated to the alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage case.

The advocate for Kavitha stated {that a} lady is now being summoned by ED for questioning and that it’s “utterly in opposition to the legislation”.

Kavitha’s lawyer talked about the plea earlier than a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and sought an pressing listening to on her petitions. The courtroom agreed to checklist it on March 24.

The courtroom requested what was the urgency within the matter, and the lawyer replied that Kavitha has been requested to look earlier than ED tomorrow.

In a petition filed via advocate Vandana Sehgal, Kavitha has urged the highest courtroom to quash the ED summons dated March 7 and 11, stating that asking her to look earlier than the company workplace as a substitute of her residence is opposite to the settled tenets of felony jurisprudence and thus, wholly unsustainable in legislation being violative of the Proviso to Part 160 of the Code of Felony Process (CrPC), 1973.

She has additionally sought that each one procedures carried out by ED, together with these in relation to the recording of statements be audio or videographed within the presence of her lawyer at a visual distance inter-alia by the use of set up of acceptable CCTV cameras.

She has additionally sought to put aside impounding order dated March 11, 2023, and declare the seizure made thereunder null and void.

Within the petition, she stated, “Regardless of the petitioner, Kavitha not being named within the FIR, sure members of the incumbent ruling political celebration on the centre made scandalous statements linking the petitioner to the Delhi Excise Coverage and the stated FIR.”

“The political conspiracy in opposition to the petitioner (Ok Kavitha) sadly didn’t finish with judicial intervention by the use of the Go well with. The Enforcement Directorate filed a remand utility qua one of many accused on November 30, 2022, earlier than the involved Courtroom. This remand utility contained the private contact particulars of the petitioner. There was no rhyme or cause to incorporate the private contact particulars of the petitioner in a remand utility which didn’t even concern the petitioner. The act is all of the extra egregious contemplating the petitioner is a girl,” BRS chief stated.

“The following occasions are extraordinarily shameful and within the perception of the petitioner, have been orchestrated by the Enforcement Directorate on the behest of the members of the incumbent ruling celebration on the centre, as half of a bigger conspiracy in opposition to the petitioner,” she stated.

Ok Kavitha additional added that the stated remand utility containing the contact particulars of the Petitioner was leaked to the media and the general public.

“The remand utility was shared extensively over social media. Such an act is petty, unlawful, and an unlucky reflection upon the malicious conduct of the Enforcement Directorate in consonance with the political celebration in energy at centre,” Kavitha stated.

She additionally stated that ED has additionally denied her request looking for to be examined at her residence, and the probe company made a categorical assertion that “there isn’t a provision beneath the PMLA for the recording of statements at any individuals’ residence”.

“That instantly thereafter on March 8, 2023, at 11:03 pm, the Petitioner despatched an e mail asserting her rights to be examined at her residence. Nevertheless, the Petitioner after reserving her rights intimated to the Respondent that she is going to seem earlier than them on March 11, 2023,” Kavitha added.

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