KCR's son KT Rama Rao in verbal spat with ED officials as Kavitha arrested

Former Telangana minister KT Rama Rao, brother of K Kavitha, confronted the ED officials from inside Kavitha's home moments before her arrest.

The video showed Rao engaged in a verbal spat with the enforcement agencies, who had served an arrest warrant to Kavitha. In the video, Rao was seen questioning the officials' actions claiming that they did not have a transit warrant to move Kavitha to Delhi.

In a video, Kavitha's brother former Telangana minister KT Rama Rao was seen confronting the ED officials, asking how they could arrest Kavitha without a transit warrant, especially after committing to the Supreme Court.

"You (ED officials) have given an undertaking in the Supreme Court, and now you are violating it. You are in serious trouble," he said.

He then accused the officials of violating an undertaking the agency had given to the Supreme Court and says, "You are in serious trouble".

He then accused the officials of violating an undertaking the agency had given to the Supreme Court and says, "You are in serious trouble".

An ED official is heard telling him that legal remedies are available.

KTR then alleged that he was not being allowed inside Kavitha's house.

"Madam Bhanu Priya Meena (ED official) says search is completed (and) arrest warrant is issued, but they don't have a transit warrant. And now she says family cannot come in?" KTR asks the ED officials.

"So you c an't produce her before a magistrate. How can you make a case?"

A transit warrant is a judicial magistrate's directive sought by the police for taking the accused from one place to another in their own custody.

The timing of Kavitha's arrest coincided with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadshow in the Hyderabad suburb of Malkajgiri on Friday.

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