A Delhi court on Saturday extended till March 26, the custody of BRS leader K Kavitha, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The national agency today produced Kavitha before Special CBI judge Kaveri Baweja of Rouse Avenue Courts on expiry of her ED remand. The central probe agency sought remand extension of five days for the BRS leader.  

ED had arrested Kavitha on March 15, hours after the Income Tax department and ED conducted searches at her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad.  

She was earlier remanded to ED custody till March 23.  

Appearing for ED, Special Counsel Zoheb Hossain submitted that statements of four persons were taken and Kavitha was confronted with the said statements.  

As per Hossain, the accused conspired in the payment of kickbacks of over Rs 100 crore.  

He added that the data in Kavitha’s phone was also analysed and that she was confronted with forensic science report, which reflected there was deletion of data during ED investigation.  

He further said that some of the details of business of Kavitha’s nephew were also sought, to which the BRS leader responded that she was not aware of the same.  

Representing the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Advocate Nitesh Rana submitted that ED was seeking certain documents from the BRS leader but it was not possible to provide the same till the time she was in the custody of the central probe agency

Former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has been sent to 5-day ED remand. Sisodia told the court he is not being interrogated while the ED said the investigation is at a critical juncture and said remand is necessary.

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The Supreme Court asked a petitioner why should it monitor the cheetah conservation programme when there are expert bodies for it. 

The Tamil Nadu government filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court order okaying a RSS route march in the state.