Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 11: Magunta Raghava, the son of YSRCP MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy, was detained by the Enforcement Directorate on Friday in connection with the Delhi liquor scam. Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, met with Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy in relation to the liquor trade in the nation’s capital, according to the ED.
Magunta Raghava was detained a few days after Butchibabu Gorantla, a chartered accountant with a Telangana address and a former auditor of KCR’s daughter K Kavitha, was detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the Delhi liquor case. According to the agency, Gorantla was evasive and unwilling to cooperate with investigators.
K Kavitha had already been questioned about the matter by a CBI team in Hyderabad on December 12 for more than seven hours. In the spirits case, the agency claimed that K Kavitha was a beneficiary of kickbacks as a member of the ‘South Cartel.’
In this instance, the ED has so far filed two charge sheets or complaints against the prosecution and made nine arrests. The CBI FIR is the foundation of the ED’s money laundering case.
In the CBI and ED allegations, Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, and other government excise officers were listed as defendants.
In August of last year, the Delhi excise policy for 2021–22 was cancelled, and the lieutenant governor of Delhi subsequently requested that the CBI look into the suspected irregularities. Sisodia is the primary accused in two distinct charges that were filed by both agencies.
After L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena suggested a CBI investigation into the suspected flaws in the implementation of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021–2022, the spirits scheme came under scrutiny.
