K Kavitha, daughter of Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, moved the Supreme Court against the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) summons in the Delhi excise policy money laundering case on Wednesday.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha agreed to hear the plea of Kavitha, who is also a member of the legislative council, on March 24.
“Can a woman be called to the office of the Enforcement Directorate?” her lawyer said while seeking an urgent hearing of the plea.
It is "completely against the law", the lawyer said.
Kavitha will be summoned for the third time on March 16.
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On March 11, the BRS leader was questioned for hours by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case. In a statement, released earlier, she claimed that she has been summoned by the ED to depose on March 9 "in light of" her proposed hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi in support of the women's reservation bill on March 11.
Kavitha said "these tactics of intimidation" against the fight between her father and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS would not deter them.
(with PTI inputs)
