ANI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has rejected Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president DK Shivakumar’s request for extending the date of his look earlier than the company.
Notably, the ED had earlier summoned Shivakumar and his brother and Congress MP DK Suresh to look earlier than it on October 7.
“I had requested time to look which was denied. I requested time as Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is passing by Karnataka and there are my tasks,” he stated.
DK Shivkumar additionally accused the federal government of misusing businesses to harass him after seeing the success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress chief stated he would focus on the summons with fellow get together leaders and take a name on whether or not he ought to seem.
ED had filed a cost sheet in opposition to Shivakumar and others in a cash laundering case in Might. Shivakumar is at the moment serving because the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
The cash laundering case was registered by the Enforcement Directorate, based mostly on a grievance filed by the Earnings Tax (IT) division. The I-T division, in the course of the preliminary probe, had allegedly discovered unaccounted and misreported wealth linked to the Congress chief.DK Shivakumar earlier had known as the fees “baseless” and “politically motivated”.Earlier, the ED has additionally summoned DK Shivakumar’s spouse and mom to look earlier than it, which was later challenged within the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. In keeping with the supply, the ED has not talked about Shivakumar’s spouse and mom’s names within the cost sheet.
Earlier on August, a Particular CBI Courtroom of Delhi granted bail to 4 accused in a cash laundering case linked with Shivkumar registered by ED.
The Particular Choose Vikas Dhull whereas granting bail to 4 accused stated, “the bail purposes are allowed and the accused are admitted to common bail topic to their furnishing private bond within the sum of Rs.1,00,000 every with one surety every of the like quantity topic to the situation that accused shall not go away this nation with out prior permission of this court docket and shall not attempt to tamper with the proof or affect any witness.”
ED had arrested Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on September 3, 2019, within the case and later Delhi Excessive Courtroom granted him bail in October 2019.