Bengaluru: Coming as a big relief to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar (DKS), the State Cabinet yesterday held the approval by the previous BJP Government to CBI to investigate a Dis-proportionate Assets (DA) case against Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar was ‘Unlawful,’ thereby paving way for the Government to withdraw the permission granted by the previous BJP Government, to the Central Agency. Sources said that with this decision, the Government will withdraw the permission accorded to the CBI in this case.
Briefing reporters after the State Cabinet meeting here yesterday, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil said “The sanction to handover the case to the CBI was taken after an oral direction from the then BJP Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa in Sept. 2019. However, the then Assembly Speaker’s sanction, that is mandatory , was not taken”.
