In a big relief for Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar𒁃, the High Court on Thursday dismi💝ssed the Central Bureau of Investigation's plea to continue the probe against the leader in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.
The Karnataka HC held the CBI's plea challenging the Congress government's decision to withdraw consent to it for investi🌟gating the DA case against Shivakumar as "non-maintainable".
A division bench of Justices K Somashekar and Umesh M Adiga also dismiss🔯ed the petition challenging the state government's order dated December 26, 2023 and referred the Rs 74.93 crore DA case to the Lok﷽ayukta for investigation.
The High Court, in a 67-page long judgment, ꦬsaid that the issues raised in the petition should be addressed by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, DK Shivakumar had said that he would accept whatever ༺verdictཧ 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 told reporters on Thursday mornin🦋g in the Sakleshpur area.
The🥃 division bench had reserved its judgment on the matter on Augus൲t 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.
The current Karnataka cabinet headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, however, on November 23, 2023, held that the former BJP-led government's move to given consent to the investigati𝄹on against Shivakumar was not in accord𒆙ance with law. Hence, the Congress government decided to withdraw the consent to further continue the probe in the DA case.
