New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket on Monday rejected Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar’s plea searching for to quash the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) disproportionate belongings case towards him beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The Supreme Court docket was listening to a petition filed by Deputy Chief Minister towards the order of the Karnataka Excessive Court docket, which had earlier rejected his plea. The CBI moved the Karnataka Excessive Court docket after the state authorities dropped the CBI case towards Shivakumar. The Excessive Court docket was listening to the plea filed by Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal difficult the state authorities’s withdrawal of consent for the CBI probe.
The Supreme Court docket had earlier refused to intrude with the Karnataka Excessive Court docket interim order staying proceedings towards Congress chief Shivakumar in a disproportionate belongings case. The Congress-ruled Karnataka authorities, in November, accepted a proposal to withdraw the CBI probe towards Shivakumar within the alleged disproportionate belongings case.
This choice triggered a large political combat within the state between the BJP and the Congress with the previous criticising the state cupboard’s choice as ‘completely unlawful’. The CBI was probing a case lodged towards the deputy CM for allegedly holding belongings disproportionate to his identified sources of earnings. Earlier, Revenue Tax sleuths had carried out a search towards him.
In 2017, the Revenue Tax Division raided DK Shivakumar, resulting in an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate. The CBI later sought permission from the state authorities to file an FIR towards him primarily based on the findings of the ED probe.
On September 25, 2019, the sanction was granted, and on October 3, 2020, Shivakumar was charged by the CBI beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act.
