A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha till May 20 in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. 

The Rouse Avenue Court deferred hearing arguments on consideration of the sixth supplementary chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the probe.

Last Friday, the ED had filed a nearly 200-page prosecution chargesheet along with annexures under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, three employees of a company that handled AAP’s Goa campaign (Chariot Productions Media Pvt Ltd) — Damodar Sharma, Prince Kumar and Chanpreet Singh — and a former employee of India Ahead news channel Arvind Singh have been named as accused in the latest charge sheet. 

On March 15, Kavitha was arrested by the ED from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad. The central agency has alleged that Kavitha was a key member of the ‘South Group’ that paid kickbacks worth ₹100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in return for a big share of liquor licences in the national capital, as part of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.