Bengaluru, April 10 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President, D.Okay. Shivakumar, has been served a discover by the State Lokayukta on Wednesday in reference to the disproportionate property (DA) case, sources confirmed.
Shivakumar has been requested to supply all paperwork in his defence relating to the case.
The event is seen as a setback for Shivakumar, who’s busy with strategising and executing election campaigns for the Congress.
Shivakumar can be on the forefront of election campaigns with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
In a controversial transfer, the Congress authorities had withdrawn the permission given to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the matter.
The case was handed over to the CBI by the then BJP authorities headed by former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa.
The case was then handed over to the Lokayukta by the Congress authorities on November 23, 2023.
The CBI had questioned the Karnataka authorities’s resolution within the court docket, claiming that it’s within the final part of submitting the cost sheet in opposition to Shivakumar.
The Supreme Court docket had just lately quashed the case probed by the Enforcement Directorate in opposition to Shivakumar.
Shivakumar had just lately claimed that even after the DA case was quashed and permission withdrawn for the CBI probe, the central probe companies nonetheless served notices to him, his household and enterprise companions and accused that they have been harassed.
The CBI had alleged that the property of Shivakumar’s household, which was amounting to Rs 33 crore in 2013 had elevated to Rs 166.79 crore by 2018.
The preliminary probe proved the rise of 44.93 per cent further property disproportionate to the sources of earnings, sources stated.
–IANS
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