The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a Karnataka High Court’s interim stay of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar in a corruption case.
A three-judge bench of Justices B R Gavai, C T Ravikumar, and Sanjay Kumar said that the order under challenge was an interim one. The Bench requested the High Court to expeditiously hear and decide the case in its merits.
On February 10, the Karnataka High Court stayed CBI proceedings in a corruption case against Shivakumar. The HC has also directed the probe agency to submit an action taken report in the case registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Additional Solicitor General SV Raju said that the division bench of the High Court granted an interim stay on the proceedings despite there being an order in favor of the agency.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for Shivakumar, said the CBI has filed an appeal against an interim order of the high court but refused to challenge subsequent interim orders passed by the division bench of the High Court.
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