SC Junks Money Laundering Case Against Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar

In a big relief to the congress leader, the Supreme Court today dismissed a 2018 money laundering case against him

The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the proceedings against the Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar in a money laundering case. In a big relief to the congress leader, the apex court today dismissed a 2018 money laundering case against him.

The Congress leader had moved the top court against the Karnataka High Court order that refused to quash the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons issued to him in an alleged case of money laundering.

A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice KV Viswanathan dismissed the money laundering case. The bench found that the ED was unsuccessful in linking the source of the recovered cash to money laundering.

The bench rasoned that the proceedings against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) were not in accordance with the rules of the law.

In September 2019, he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with this case. However, the Delhi High Court granted him bail the next month.

The money laundering case against Shivakumar was filed alleging that Rs 8.59 crore cash was seized from his Safdarjung Enclave apartment in Delhi. In 2017, the Income-Tax had raided several places linked to him as part of its alleged tax evasion probe against Shivakumar, his alleged business associate and liquor trader Sachin Narayan, and another associate Sunil Kumar Sharma who operated a fleet of luxury buses and others.

 

Shivkumar, who was then in opposition in the state of Karnataka, had accused the BJP government of carrying out political vendetta against him. He had said that he has complete fath in the judiciary.