“I am victim of political vendetta,” BRS MLC Kavitha tells judge in a handwritten letter

HYDERABAD: In a handwritten four-page letter purportedly written by BRS MLC K Kavitha who is jailed in Tihar prison, she said that she was the victim in the Delhi Liquor Policy scam case.

Addressing the CBI Special Judge Kaveri Baweja at the Rouse Avenue Court, she said that she neither had any involvement nor obtained any financial benefits in the liquor case.

“Madam Justice, if anything, I am a victim as the whole nation witnessed the two and half years of never-ending ED and CBI investigation which turned into a media trial,” Kavitha said. She said that as a woman politician, she was the most victimised in the process which severely dented her reputation.

She brought to the notice of the Judge that her mobile numbers were displayed in news channels invading her privacy. “Madam Justice I have cooperated with both the agencies and appeared before them several times. I have answered all their question to the best of my knowledge and given all bank and business details,” Kavitha wrote. She pointed out that the investigating agencies conducted multiple raids resulting in mental agony. “I was physically and mentally harassed and coerced,” she said.

Yet, all they could accumulate were a bunch of statements from few people few people who kept changing their statements and their political alliances, she said. “Justice Khurana has observed that there was no money trail, no proof of corruption, and the case can be thrown away,” she said.

She said that the ED arrested her from her home just before the national elections even as it gave an undertaking to the Supreme Court that it would not initiate any coercive action against her. “Today most of the ED, and CBI cases stop after the victim joins the BJP".

Kavitha said that the opposition leaders in the country looked up to the Judiciary for respite from the onslaught of the ruling party. “I have done nothing but cooperate with the due process and procedure and I will continue to do so. Therefore I request you grant me bail as I am a dutiful mother of a minor son,” she said.