New Delhi, Nov 8 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Karnataka government and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on a plea filed by the CBI against the state government’s decision to withdraw its permission to the probe agency for investigating of disproportionate assets (DA) case against the Congress leader.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan issued notices to Shivakumar and the state government while seeking their replies to the plea.
The current Karnataka cabinet led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on November 23, 2023, adhering to the previous BJP government’s 2019 move to grant permission to the CBI to probe the DA case against Shivakumar, was not in compliance with the law and as a result decided to withdraw the sanction. .
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On August 29, the Karnataka High Court ruled a petition filed by the CBI and a BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal as “non-maintainable” and challenged the Congress government’s decision to withdraw permission.
However, Patil challenged the high court’s order in the top court, which sought responses from Shivakumar and the state government.
On September 17, the same bench had issued notices to Shivakumar and the state government about Patil’s plea.
On August 29, the Supreme Court had dismissed the plea, also challenging the state government’s December 26, 2023 order referring the Rs 74.93 crore DA case to the Lokayukta for investigation.
The CBI had alleged that Shivakumar had 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 the DA case against Shivakumar on October 3, 2020, based on the permission given by the BJP government on September 25, 2019, following a referral from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe allegations of corruption arising out of an investigation into the income tax.
The BJP government subsequently granted sanctions to the CBI to prosecute Shivakumar.
The politician was arrested by the ED in September 2019 on alleged money laundering charges arising from an Income Tax Department investigation against him between 2017 and 2019. In October 2019, he was released on bail in the ED case.
On March 5, the top court quashed the money laundering case against Shivakumar, saying it was related to the planned crime. PTI PKS ZMN
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