BRS leader K Kavitha, arrested from her Hyderabad home by the Enforcement Directorate last evening in the Delhi liquor policy case, was taken to the agency’s headquarters in the national capital around midnight. The agency moved her to Delhi for further questioning in the case.

After landing in the city, she was taken to the agency’s office, where medical tests were done.

The agency will produce former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter before the Rouse Avenue court at 10:30 am today to seek her remand for custodial interrogation.

Reacting to her arrest, Ms Kavitha’s brother and former Telangana minister KT Rama Rao in a post on X said, “Abuse of power and institutional misuse to settle political scores is something that has become increasingly common with BJP government in last 10 years. ED needs to answer the Supreme Court on the inordinate rush to arrest when the matter is very much sub-judice and up for review in a couple of days, on the 19th of March. What’s even more appalling is the ED undermining its own undertaking given to the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Justice shall prevail and we will continue to fight legally.”

Abuse of power and institutional misuse to settle political scores is something that has become increasingly common with BJP Govt in last 10 years

ED needs to answer Supreme Court on the inordinate rush to arrest when the matter is very much sub-judice & up for review in a…

— KTR (@KTRBRS) March 15, 2024

The financial probe agency on Friday took K Kavitha in custody in a dramatic arrest and hours-long raid at her premises in Hyderabad in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.

Ms Kavitha was arrested pm from her Banjara Hills home in Hyderabad.

The arrest came weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and on a day the Congress government in the state completed 100 days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also in Malkajgiri, a suburb in Hyderabad, where he held a massive roadshow.

The Supreme Court had granted the BRS leader immunity from interrogation till Wednesday and heard her petition against the agency’s summons in the case on Friday. The next hearing will be on Tuesday.

An Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter were killed in a “suspicious” fire which tore through their home last week in Canada’s Ontario province, police said on Friday.

A fire engulfed a home at the Big Sky Way and Van Kirk Drive area of Brampton on March 7, a press release by the Peel Police said.

After the blaze was put out, investigators located what was believed to be human remains within the gutted house, but the number of people killed couldn’t be ascertained at the time.

The charred remains were on Friday identified as those of three family members: 51-year-old Rajiv Warikoo; his wife, 47-year-old Shilpa Kotha; and their 16-year-old daughter, Mahek Warikoo.

Police said that they resided at the address before the fire.

Peel police Constable Taryn Young on Friday said the fire had been deemed suspicious, the CTV news channel reported.

“At this time, we are investigating this with our homicide bureau, and we are deeming this as suspicious as the Ontario Fire Marshal has deemed that this fire was not accidental,” the report quoted Young as saying.

“There’s not much left to it,” Young said when asked about the possible cause of the fire.

“Looking into something like that as a fire marshal, I’m sure it’s very tough when there is not much left to look at. But we are exhausting all avenues,” she said.

The deceased family’s neighbour, Kenneth Yousaf, said that the family had lived on the street for about 15 years, and he never noticed any problems with them.

Yousaf said he was alerted to the fire last week by a family member, who heard a big “bang.” “When we came out, the house was on fire. So sad. Within a few hours, everything was down to the ground,” the report quoted Yousaf as saying.

In a press release, police said they are continuing to investigate the deaths of the three family members and urged anyone with information to come forward.

“The circumstances surrounding the house fire remains the focus of an active investigation, and anyone with information or video footage (dashcam or otherwise) is urged to contact Homicide detectives,” police said.

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