NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant bail to BRS leader K Kavitha, who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Delhi excise policy scam case. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela M Trivedi directed Kavitha to approach the trial court.
Supreme Court said that it has to follow a uniform policy for all and it cannot allow people to approach the apex court directly for bail just because they are political persons or can afford to move the Supreme Court directly.
SC, however, directed that a bail plea if filed must be decided expeditiously by the trial court.
Regarding Kavitha’s challenge to the Prevention of money laundering act (Pmla) provisions, the court served notice to the ED for a response within six weeks.
“The petition challenging the provisions will come up with the pending matters,” the bench told senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Kavitha.
Further, Sibal said that people are being arrested on the basis of an approver’s statement. In response, the apex court said it is not going into the merit of the case at the moment.
Kavitha, a Telangana legislative council member and daughter of former CM K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested on March 15 and remanded to the ED’s custody till March 23 in the case.
Supreme Court said that it has to follow a uniform policy for all and it cannot allow people to approach the apex court directly for bail just because they are political persons or can afford to move the Supreme Court directly.
SC, however, directed that a bail plea if filed must be decided expeditiously by the trial court.
Regarding Kavitha’s challenge to the Prevention of money laundering act (Pmla) provisions, the court served notice to the ED for a response within six weeks.
“The petition challenging the provisions will come up with the pending matters,” the bench told senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Kavitha.
Further, Sibal said that people are being arrested on the basis of an approver’s statement. In response, the apex court said it is not going into the merit of the case at the moment.
Kavitha, a Telangana legislative council member and daughter of former CM K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested on March 15 and remanded to the ED’s custody till March 23 in the case.
