Karnataka Deputy CM D K Shivakumar.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Karnataka government and senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar on a plea by the CBI challenging withdrawal of consent to investigate disproportionate assets case against the Deputy Chief Minister.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan sought a response from the state government and Shivakumar within four weeks.
The court tagged the instant petition with the one already filed by Karnataka BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal.
The CBI and the BJP leader challenged the Karnataka High Court's order of August 29, 2024.
The Karnataka High Court had then dismissed petitions filed by Yatnal and the CBI challenging the Congress government’s decision to withdraw consent for investigating the corruption case against Shivakumar.
The High Court had termed the petitions as “non-maintainable”.
The High Court also dismissed the CBI’s challenge to the state’s November 28, 2023, decision to withdraw consent for probing Shivakumar’s alleged illegal assets.
The CBI filed a disproportionate assets case against Shivakumar on October 3, 2020, with the consent of the previous BJP government on September 25, 2019.
The central agency alleged that Shivakumar accumulated Rs 74.93 crore of wealth disproportionate to known sources of income from April 2013 to April 2018, while serving as the energy minister in a previous Congress government.