SC adjourns plea against withdrawal of CBI consent for probe against Karnataka Deputy CM Shivakumar
The Hindu
Supreme Court defers hearing on CBI appeal against Karnataka HC order on Shivakumar DA case withdrawal.
The Supreme Court on Monday (November 4, 2024) adjourned by four weeks the hearing on a plea against the withdrawal of consent to the CBI for probing a DA case against Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan deferred the matter after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had also filed an appeal against the Karnataka High Court order.
The Supreme court was hearing a plea filed by BJP MLA Basangouda R Patil (Yatnal) who had challenged the August 29 Karnataka HC order rejecting his plea against the withdrawal of consent.
During the hearing, Mehta informed the bench that the CBI appeal had not been listed as yet whereas senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, representing Mr. Shivakumar, sought time to file a reply in the matter.
The Supreme court had on September 17 issued a notice to Mr. Shivakumar and the state government on the MLA's plea.
A CBI plea challenging the Karnataka Congress government's decision to withdraw the consent to the agency to probe the disproportionate assets (DA) case against Mr. Shivakumar was held to be "non-maintainable" by the high court on August 29.
The court dismissed the plea challenging the November 23, 2023 order of the state government referring the alleged Rs 74.93 crore DA case to the Lokayukta for investigation. The CBI had alleged Shivakumar amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income between 2013 and 2018 being a minister in the erstwhile Congress government at the time.
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