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Before entering the ED office on Tuesday, Kalvakuntla, the daughter of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, flashed some mobile phones kept in a transparent sheet to the media and said she was going to submit them to the ED.
She also wrote a letter to the federal agency stating that “these phones are submitted without prejudice to my right and contentions and larger contentions whether a woman’s phone can be intruded, in the teeth of her right to privacy”.
She further alleged “glaring act of malice on the part of the agency when it has chosen to make insinuations” against her in its first charge sheet filed last year in which the ED alleged that certain phones (allegedly used by her) were destroyed.
Responding to this charge, she has said: “It is baffling to note as to how, why and under what such circumstances agency made such allegations when I was not even summoned or asked any questions whatsoever.”
She said the accusations against her were “not only mala fide, misconceive but also prejudicial”. The BRS leader said she was submitting the phones to dispel any notion or adverse impression that the agency was allegedly trying to create.According to the letter, “deliberate leakage of the false accusation (by the ED) to the public has led to a political slugfest” wherein her political adversaries have been “flaunting the accusations, to accuse her of destroying the so-called evidence and causing great harm to her reputation and attempting to defame her and her political party”.Her letter added: “It is unfortunate that a premier agency like the Enforcement Directorate is becoming privy and party to these acts and sabotaging and sacrificing its sacrosanct duty of free and fair investigation at the altar of vested political interest”.
The BRS leader was questioned for over nine hours during her second round of questioning on Monday. She has challenged the ED summons in the Supreme Court. Her petition is slated to come up for hearing on March 24.
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