DK Shivakumar has been in custody since September 3 after the Enforcement Directorate had arrested him.
Former Karnataka Minister and Congress strongman DK Shivakumar will continue to remain in Tihar jail as the special court rejected his bail in connection with the money laundering case yet again on Wednesday. Shivakumar has been in custody since September 3 after the Enforcement Directorate had arrested him. Till now, Shivakumar’s bail plea on medical grounds has been rejected by the court after the prosecution told the court that the former minister could tamper with evidence if he walks out. While his police (ED) custody ended on September 19, he was remanded to judicial custody till October 1 by the Rouse Avenue court. He was reportedly lodged in the same jail compound as former Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The ED had been probing accusations of money laundering registered against DK Shivakumar (DKS) since August 2017, when a cash amount of Rs 8.86 crore was found in his New Delhi residence. Allegations against DKS include that he along with his associates transferred unaccounted money through hawala transactions to the Congress top brass. On September 12, DK Shivakumar’s daughter Aishwarya too had appeared before the ED and was questioned for seven hours in connection with the case. At the time, officials from the ED stated that she was being questioned about a trust fund set up in her name. The ED also interrogated her regarding the increase in her wealth between 2013 and 2018. Shivakumar had declared that his daughter held assets worth Rs 108 crore, ahead of the 2018 state assembly elections. However in 2013, she supposedly had only Rs 1.09 crore. The ED has also questioned many of Shivakumar’s aides including Karnataka Congress MLA Laxmi Hebbalkar in this case. As part of the probe into the case back in 2017, the Income Tax Department found that some transactions made by him were linked to Lakshmi Hebbalkar. Further, when the raids first took place on August 2, 2017, Shivakumar had allegedly made a phone call to Lakshmi.
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