D.K Shivakumar Was arrested on Tuesday 3rd September 2019 and was presented before the court after he underwent medical a checkup at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.
New Delhi: On Wednesday, September 4, Karnataka’s Congress leader D.K Shivakumar had to go under Enforcement Directorate custody until September 13. The probe agency earlier sought a 14 – day custodial interrogation of the leader, who was arrested on Tuesday night in the case of money laundering.
Special Judge named Ajay Kumar Kuhar pronounced the order in the matter after the ED argued that Shivakumar had been evasive and non- cooperative in the probe and there was “Phenomenal growth” in his income while he was in an important position.
Opposing the ED’s contentions, DK Shivakumar’s counsel said that the Congress leader has already been quizzed for 33 hours by the agency. The ED had registered the money laundering case last year that is 2018 against Shivakumar and Haumanthaiah an employee at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi.
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Shivakumar’s lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Dayan Krishnan opposed the ED’s plea for custodial interrogation by saying that he had joined the probe and never absconded. Shivakumar has not been given food for a while and it’s almost a slow torture by ED.
Political Vendetta has become more stronger than the law in this country pic.twitter.com/Ylo7QhBkKn
— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) September 4, 2019
Sanghvi Quoted that the police remand is a rare exception and cannot be granted in a mechanical manner and the ED’s plea for DK Shivakumar’s custodial interrogation is perverse. He was opposing the submission of the ED which told the court about Income Tax investigation and statement of various witnesses have revealed incriminating evidence against DK Shivakumar.
The probe agency claimed he was evasive and non- cooperative during the probe and there was phenomenal growth in this income while he was in a prominent position. The ED said his custody is required as he has to be confronted with voluminous documents and to unearth illegal properties.
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ED said that custodial interrogation of DK Shivakumar is necessary as some facts are in his personal knowledge adding that he tried to misguide the investigation. It said, “DK Shivakumar’s interrogation was needed to ascertain the source of money and unearth the modus operandi and that he did not explain cash seized in search.”
The Karnataka congress on Wednesday observed a statewide bandh in protest against the arrest several youth congress detained in Delhi following a scuffle with police personal during a protest. Protesters raised slogans against BJP Government and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah outside the Indian Youth Congress office in central Delhi. Some Congress leaders also said that only apposition leaders are being targeted by ED and this is completely a political vendetta.
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