CBI pleads SC against withdrawal of consent by K’taka government to investigate case against DK Shivakumar – ThePrint – PTIFeed

New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka government’s decision to withdraw its consent to the investigating agency to investigate a case of ‘disproportionate assets (DA) against Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.

The current Karnataka Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on 23 November 2023, held that the previous BJP government’s 2019 move to give consent to the CBI to investigate the DA case against Shivakumar was not in accordance with the law and decided to withdraw the sanction as a result. .

Patil, however, challenged the high court’s order in the apex court which sought responses from Shivakumar and the state government.

On September 17, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan issued notices to Shivakumar and the state government on the petition filed by Patil.

On August 29, the high court had dismissed the plea, which also challenged the state government’s December 26, 2023 order sending the Rs 74.93 crore DA case to the Lokayukta for research

The CBI had alleged that Shivakumar amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income between 2013 and 2018. He was a minister in the previous Congress government during this period.

The CBI registered a DA case against Shivakumar on October 3, 2020, based on the consent given by the BJP government on September 25, 2019, following a reference by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the corruption charges arising from an income tax investigation.

Subsequently, the BJP government granted sanction to the CBI to prosecute Shivakumar.

The politician was arrested by the ED in September 2019 on alleged money laundering charges stemming from an Income Tax Department investigation against him between 2017 and 2019. He was released out on bail in the ED case in October 2019.

On March 5, the high court quashed the money laundering case against Shivakumar saying it had to be related to scheduled crime. PTI MNL AMK MNL AMK AMK

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