The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday permitted Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to withdraw his pleas questioning the legality of sanction/consent granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on September 25, 2019, to investigate the ₹74.93-crore disproportionate assets case against him, after the State government on Tuesday withdrew the impugned sanction/consent.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order while disposing of the writ appeal filed by Mr. Shivakumar, who had challenged the April 20, 2023, verdict of a single judge, who had upheld the legality of the 2019 sanction.