NEW DELHI: BRS leader K Kavitha, who was arrested in March this year, walked out of Tihar Jail here late Tuesday evening, hours after the Supreme Court granted her bail in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
BRS workers and supporters who had gathered outside the jail to welcome her played drums and burst crackers as she stepped out of the prison complex.
Kavitha's brother and BRS working president K T Rama Rao was also present.
Kavitha (46) was released from Tihar's jail number 6 where she was lodged for nearly five months.
The BRS leader spoke to supporters after her release, she said, "We are fighters, we will fight it out legally and politically. They have only made the BRS and KCR's team unbreakable." Maintaining that the allegations against her are false, she said, “Entire country knows I was put in jail for political reason. I have done nothing wrong."
"All I have to say is that law will prevail, law will take its course," she added.
She promised to "return it with interest" to those who had put her and her family through the ordeal. She added that the "unjust" imprisonment had strengthened her party's resolve and the BRS and KCR team is "unbreakable".
Kavitha acknowledged the personal toll of her incarceration, stating, "Being separated from my family and children for five-and-a-half months as a mother was particularly trying."
"We will fight this battle on both legal and political fronts. By unjustly imprisoning me, they have only strengthened the BRS party and KCR's resolve," Kavitha said.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) founder and Kavitha's father K Chandrashekar Rao, popularly called KCR, had alleged that she was arrested due to BJP's vendetta.
"Thank You Supreme Court. Relieved. Justice prevailed," K T Rama Rao said on X after his sister was granted bail.
BRS leaders distributed sweets at the party's headquarters in Hyderabad.
Kavitha will leave for Hyderabad on Wednesday afternoon.
The Enforcement Directorate had arrested her from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15 and the CBI had arrested her from Tihar jail on April 11.
While granting bail on Tuesday, an apex court bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan noted that Kavitha had been in custody for around five months and the probe against her by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was complete in these cases.