The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday opposed Karnataka Congress chief D Okay Shivakumar’s plea within the Delhi excessive court docket, difficult a cash laundering probe towards him, saying that the 2 ECIRs lodged by the company pertain to completely different instances with sure overlapping of information which can’t be termed a re-investigation.
Shivakumar, in his plea, has sought quashing of all the investigation, together with summons issued to him within the Enforcement Case Info Report (ECIR) registered by the ED in 2020, on a number of grounds.
Nonetheless, the Enforcement Directorate mentioned in its counter affidavit that each the ECIRs are primarily based on completely different set of information and even the scheduled offence in each the instances is completely different. The quantum of proceeds of crime concerned can also be completely different, it mentioned.
“…the allegation made within the criticism of the Revenue Tax division and FIR of CBI depict completely different modes of era of the crime proceeds and that position of various accused individuals could come into mild, thus the petitioner can’t declare that he has already been investigated for a similar offence,” the affidavit mentioned.
On Wednesday, a bench of justices Mukta Gupta and Anish Dayal granted every week’s time to Shivakumar, who was represented via senior advocate Kapil Sibal and lawyer Mayank Jain, to file a rejoinder to ED’s reply.
The excessive court docket additionally requested the events to file their written submissions within the case earlier than the following date of listening to on December 2.
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