NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the questioning of Kalvakuntla Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and daughter of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday in connection with a case under the Prevention of Money laundering Act relating to alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy, in which the ED has arrested Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia.
Kavitha trained her guns on the BJP-led NDA government and said that it has been using investigating agencies to frame leaders of opposition parties. Her counsel told a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha that she had appeared for questioning before the ED on March 11 and that the investigating agency has illegally seized her mobile phone.
Terming the fresh ED summons for March 16 as a tactic to harass leaders of parties politically opposed to the BJP-led NDA government, her counsel sought urgent stay of the summons and made a request that they be quashed. She had also requested the court to restrain the ED from taking any coercive steps against her.
The bench refused urgent hearing on the plea for stay of the ED questioning scheduled for March 16 and posted her petition for hearing on March 24, thus virtually rendering her plea for stay of the summons redundant.
Kavitha trained her guns on the BJP-led NDA government and said that it has been using investigating agencies to frame leaders of opposition parties. Her counsel told a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha that she had appeared for questioning before the ED on March 11 and that the investigating agency has illegally seized her mobile phone.
Terming the fresh ED summons for March 16 as a tactic to harass leaders of parties politically opposed to the BJP-led NDA government, her counsel sought urgent stay of the summons and made a request that they be quashed. She had also requested the court to restrain the ED from taking any coercive steps against her.
The bench refused urgent hearing on the plea for stay of the ED questioning scheduled for March 16 and posted her petition for hearing on March 24, thus virtually rendering her plea for stay of the summons redundant.
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