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Custody of DK Shivakumar you extended

DK Shivakumar

New Delhi | The ED custody of Congress leader former Karnataka Minister and senior State Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar been extended by a Delhi court.

Special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar extended the custody till September 17. The probe agency had sought five-day custody, submitting that Mr. Shivakumar was “evasive” and gave “irrelevant answers” during his nine-day custody. Opposing the plea for extension of remand, counsel for the accused, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, submitted that his client was seriously ill. The judge told the Directorate to interrogate the accused after he was given medical care.

ED had arrested Shivakumar on September 3, on a complaint by the Income Tax department for allegedly hatching a conspiracy for concealing and projecting tainted and illegal money as untainted property.

 

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