Fresh summons has been issued to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) daughter and BRS leader K Kavitha, today by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after she skipped a date with the central probe agency earlier in the day in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy scam case.

According to officials, K Kavitha has been summoned for questioning in a money laundering case related to the Delhi policy scam case on March 20.

The BRS leader’s legal team submitted a representation to the probe agency in which she said matters regarding her summoning for questioning by the ED is now before the Supreme Court and “the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons”.

Earlier today, K Kavitha skipped on a summon by the ED and instead sent her “authorized representative” (an office bearer of her party), along with a letter wherein the BRS MLC said the she sending her as the summons do not explicitly require her being there in person. Kavitha also cited a pending plea before the Supreme Court in which has sought protection from arrest and quashing of summons against her in the case.

Kavitha wrote in her letter to ED: “I humbly beseech your good self that the proceedings before the Supreme Court being sacred and sacrosanct, the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons.”

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K Kavitha’s “authorized representative” handed a six-page representation against her deposition along with her bank statement, personal and business details to the ED investigation officer, according to reports.

Kavitha, who was questioned by the central agency for nine hours on March 11 and was asked to depose again on March 16. During the interrogation session, she was reportedly made to confront statements made by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an arrested accused in the case who allegedly who allegedly shares close ties with her, apart from those of few others involved in the case.

The BRS leader recently led a hunger strike in Delhi on March 10 seeking the passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament.

However, both Congress and the BJP have alleged that Kavitha’s hunger strike was a mere ploy to divert attention from her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the purported Delhi liquor policy scam case.

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At least six people were injured after the police vehicle hit them at a market in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur. The accident took place in the Lambhua Police Station area on Thursday.

According to Inspector Shivakant Tripathi of Lambhua Police Station, Chowkidar Ranjit was en route to have the jeep’s tyres filled. Tripathi said the jeep’s tyre suddenly burst, causing the driver to lose control which hit six people in the market.

The injured were immediately rushed to the Community Health Centre, said police officials.

A huge crowd gathered at the accident spot and thrashed the driver. They even protested outside the station and demanded action against the driver.

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Superintendent of Police Somen Burma said that Additional Superintendent of Police Vipul Srivastava has been sent to the spot to investigate the matter. He said during the investigation if the driver is found guilty or the vehicle is found unfit, strict legal action will be taken against those responsible.

Earlier in January, a six-month-old girl was killed and five people were injured after their car was hit by a police emergency vehicle coming from the opposite direction on the Gurugram-Faridabad road.

An FIR was registered against the ERV driver under sections 279 (rash driving), 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others), 304A (causing death by negligence), 427 (causing damage) of the Indian Penal Code at DLF phase 1 police station.

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A former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah-led all-party delegation from Jammu and Kashmir, Thursday, held a meeting with Opposition leaders from various national parties who supported their demand for restoring the Union Territory’s statehood and holding of elections in the erstwhile state as soon as possible.

Talking to newsmen, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar said the Opposition leaders unanimously agreed that Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood must be restored and election should be held in the former state without any further delay.

He said that the leaders will visit Srinagar in May later this year to “share the pain of the people of Jammu and Kashmir” and assure the people there of their support.

Sharad Pawar, along with several other senior leaders from national parties including the Congress, DMK, TMC, CPIM, RJD, SP, AAP, and others met with a delegation of all parties from Jammu and Kashmir led by former J&K CM and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah.

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Later, the delegation marched to the office of Election Commission of India to memorandum demanding assembly elections in the erstwhile state. Speaking after the meeting with the Election Commission, Abdullah said the poll panel gave assurances about taking the required steps for holding elections in the former state.

Abdullah said that regardless of alliances and policies, all parties in Jammu and Kashmir want elections and there is no reason in delaying the long overdue polls in the former state.

Jammu and Kashmir has not seen an elected government since 2014 and has been under New Delhi’s direct rule since the PM Modi-led BJP regime at the Centre junked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and abrogated Article 370 in August 2019.

The Centre also bifurcated the former state in two Union Territories— Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh—by introducing and passing the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on August 5, 2019. The Lok Sabha cleared the bill the next day.

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