Supreme Court Refuses To Take Up K Kavitha’s Petition Against Her Arrest

K Kavitha was arrested in the alleged scam by the Enforcement Directorate last Friday. (File)

BRS leader K Kavitha, who was arrested last week in the Delhi liquor policy case, has been denied any relief by the Supreme Court and told to approach the trial court.

A special bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh and Bela Trivedi refused to take up her petition saying she must follow a uniform policy and seek relief from the trial court. The court also said it cannot allow people to directly approach the top court for bail just because they are politicians or can afford to approach the top court directly.

Ms Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), was arrested in the alleged liquor policy scam by the Enforcement Directorate last Friday.

Her writ petition came up for hearing this morning in the Supreme Court in the backdrop of an urgent hearing against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last evening.

Mr Kejriwal, a sitting chief minister, is the third leader of the Aam Aadmi Party to be arrested in this case after his former deputy Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh.

The Chief Minister spent the night in a lock-up at the probe agency’s office and is set to be produced before an ED court today. The cops have erected barricades near the AAP office while traffic restrictions have been enforced in the city in view of protests by his supporters.