New Delhi: The Supreme Court maintained the interim stay placed by the Karnataka High Court on a CBI investigation involving Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar in a corruption case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had challenged the high court’s interim stay by filing a petition in the Supreme Court. A bench consisting of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M. Trivedi, while hearing the plea, issued a notice to Shivakumar, asking him to provide his response to CBI’s appeal.
Back in July, the Supreme Court had declined to intervene in the Karnataka High Court’s decision to grant an interim stay on a CBI probe against the Congress leader.
In February, the high court had halted CBI proceedings in a corruption case involving Shivakumar and instructed the investigative agency to submit an action taken report in the case registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PMLA). The corruption case was initiated against Shivakumar following an Income Tax Department search in 2017.
