The court has granted the Enforcement Directorate permission to interrogate DK Shivakumar on October 3 and 4 at Tihar jail, where he is currently lodged.
A CBI special court on Tuesday extended former Karnataka Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar’s judicial custody till October 15. DK Shivakumar is currently lodged at Tihar jail in New Delhi. The former Congress Minister’s judicial custody ended on Tuesday and he was produced before the court. During the hearing, the Enforcement Directorate’s counsel moved an application seeking permission to question Shivakumar while in judicial custody. The court granted the agency permission to interrogate DK Shivakumar on October 3 and 4 at Tihar jail. DK Shivakumar was arrested by the ED on September 3, four days after he was questioned in the alleged money laundering case. He had been in ED’s custody and on September 17, he was remanded to judicial custody. On September 27, DK Shivakumar moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail. The court ordered the Enforcement Directorate to submit a response to Shivakumar’s plea by October 14. Shivakumar has been on the radar of the Income Tax Department and the ED since demonetisation in 2016. An Income Tax search at his New Delhi flat on August 2, 2017, led to the seizure of unaccounted cash worth Rs 8.83 crore. Thereafter, the I-T Department lodged cases against the Congress leader and his four associates under Sections 277 and 278 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, and Sections 120(B) ( criminal conspiracy), 193 (Punishment for false evidence) and 199 (False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Incidentally, according to Shivakumar’s affidavit submitted to the Election Commission ahead of the Assembly elections in 2018, Aisshwarya owned assets of Rs 108 crore compared to only Rs 1.09 crore in 2013. Shivakumar, however, clarified that Aisshwarya was not dependent on his income and that he was still declaring her assets as per the Representation of Peoples Act. The ED has also questioned DK Shivakumar’s daughter and Belagavi Rural MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar in connection with the case.
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