The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a summons to Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee D Ok Shivakumar and Congress MP D Ok Suresh in reference to the Younger Indian Restricted and Nationwide Herald case, asking the duo to look earlier than the probe company on October 7.
Shivakumar informed reporters at Badanavalu in Mysuru district that he has requested the authorities to offer one other date for look as a result of ongoing Bharat Jodi Yatra within the state.
The case pertains to the alleged monetary irregularities dedicated by Younger India Ltd whereas taking up the property of Nationwide Herald.
“I’ve determined to honour the summons and seem…. (Nonetheless) I’ll ship them a letter requesting them to offer us with one other date. I’ll positively cooperate with them,” he mentioned.
The summons’ date coincides with Rahul Gandhi’s keep at Adichunchanagiri mutt — an influence centre of the Vokkaliga neighborhood — close to Nagamangala in Mandya district. “It’s our mutt and it’ll not be proper if I’m not current that day,” Shivakumar, who hails from the Vokkaliga neighborhood, mentioned, whereas including that he and his brother have taken up your complete duty of the yatra.
That is the second time in as many months that the central company has summoned the Congress chief. In September, he had appeared earlier than the ED to report his assertion in a cash laundering case registered towards him. Final week, the officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigating the disproportionate case had visited his properties in Ramanagara district for verification functions.
Shivakumar mentioned that the ED had filed a chargesheet towards him within the cash laundering case, whereas the disproportionate property case was being investigated by CBI. “But, such circumstances of different (leaders) are being investigated on the stage of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Although the Advocate Common was of the view that it was not a match case to be investigated by CBI, the federal government has handed it over. They’re doing it to harass me politically,” he alleged.
The Congress chief was raided by Revenue Tax officers in 2017 whereas he was harbouring Gujarat Congress MLAs forward of the Rajya Sabha elections. Subsequently, the ED had registered a cash laundering case towards him.