The Enforcement Directorate, which has been closely probing the alleged liquor policy scam in Delhi, has started digging deeply into the suspected links of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders with Aam Admi Party leaders in the national capital.
As part of its ongoing probe into the scam, the ED resumed raids at multiple locations across the country.
According to sources, the raids are being conducted at more than 30 locations excluding Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s house.
“We are conducting raids in Lucknow in UP, Gurugram in Haryana, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and other locations. The searches, which started early this morning, are underway,” they said.
The ED case is based on the FIR of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which alleged that liquor businessmen were allegedly given exemption of Rs 30 crore in violation of the existing excise rules.
It also said that Sisodia and a few liquor barons were actively involved in managing and diverting the undue pecuniary advantage collected from liquor licensees to public servants, who have been accused in the case.
In Hyderabad, the ED authorities have begun conducting search operations in six locations, including the residence of Arun Ramachandra Pillai at Kokapet, whose name had surfaced during the last raids, that led to the allegations that he had links with TRS legislator and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha.
The other names in whose houses and offices where the ED is conducting searches include: Boinpalli Abhishek Rao, Sudini Srujan Reddy and Gandra Premsagar Rao, all of them are said to have close links with the TRS.
The ED conducted raids on the head office of Robin Distilleries Private Ltd, at Nanakramguda in Hyderabad, in which Arun Ramachandra Pillai and Premsagar Rao are said to be directors. Raids are also being conducted at Rajendranagar.
There are allegations that Sudini Srujan Reddy was a business partner of Kavitha, who had floated a company called Adicore Infrastructure Private Limited in February 2010.
He also has another company by name Deepak Infratech Private Limited which is doing works in Kalwakurthy Lift Irrigation scheme.
Interestingly, Srujan happens to be a nephew of former Union minister and senior Congress leader late S Jaipal Reddy, who is also closely related to Telangana PCC president A Revanth Reddy.
Maybe, the ED raids will come out all these connections to target the anti-BJP forces!
