In a temporary relief to Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, a Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka on Monday stayed till July 17 the single judge’s order of upholding consent given by the State government to the CBI to probe the corruption case against him for allegedly possessing ₹74.93 crore worth of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice M.G.S. Kamal passed the ad-interim order on an appeal filed by Mr. Shivakumar challenging the judge’s April 20 judgment.
The ad-interim stay was granted only till the next date of hearing for the reason that the judge had granted interim protection in the nature of ‘not to take coercive step’ against him since September 2020 and till his petition was rejected on April 20, 2023.
