Relief For DK Shivakumar As Karnataka HC Dismisses CBI Plea To Continue Probe In Disproportionate Assets Case

In a big relief for Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, the High Court on Thursday dismissed the Central Bure🌺au of Investigation's plea to continue the probe against the leader in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.

The Karnataka HC held the CBI's p🧸lea challenging the Congre📖ss government's decision to withdraw consent to it for investigating the DA case against Shivakumar as "non-maintainable".

A division bench of Justices K Somashekar and Umesh M Adiga alꦡso dismissed the petition challenging the state government's order dated December 26, 2023 and referred the Rs 74.93 crore DA case to the Lokayukta for investigation.

The High Court, in a 67-page long judgment, said that the issues raised in the petition should be a🌳ddressed by the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, DK Shivakumar had said that he would accept whatever verdictౠ is given by the apex court as "God's decision".꧂

"I believe in courts...and I believe in God. I will accept the court's decision as God's," he to💫l🌠d reporters on Thursday morning in the Sakleshpur area.

The division bench had reserved its judgment on t🍸he matter on August 12.

The central probe agency had earlier alleged that Shivakumar accumulated assets disproportionate to his known sources of income between 2013 and 2018, a period during which he was a minister in the previous Congress government.

Notably, the previous BJP had granted sanction to the CBI to prosecute Shivakumar, ಌfollowing which an FIR was lodged against him and investigation was launched on the charges of disproportionate aℱssets.

The current Karnataka ca🐠binet headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, however, on November 23, 2023, held that the former BJP-led government's move to given consent to the investigation against Shivakumar was not in accordance with law. Hence, the Congress government decided to withdraw the consent to further continue the probe in the DA case.