 president DK Shivakumar till April 6.){kind=link}
The Karnataka High court has extended the stay order in a disproportionate assets case against Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar till April 6.
The court has decided to take up the separate petition filed by Shivakumar in which he has challenged the order of September 25, 2019 in which permission was granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to proceed in the matter under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Justice K Natarajan noted that although the other petition was filed in 2020 itself, neither the petitioner nor the respondent state government bothered about it in the last 3 years. The judge also directed for impleading the CBI in the matter.
In his petition challenging the FIR, Shivakumar has claimed that as per earlier order of the high court, the CBI could not have initiated coercive measures against him and added that there is no sanction obtained under section 17 A of the PC Act to prosecute him.
On October 3, 2020 the CBI had registered the FIR under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act, after a consent accorded by the state government to investigate the matter.
The CBI that Shivakumar and his family members are in possession of around Rs 74.8 crore disproportionate assets which he has failed to explain with proper documents