Bengaluru: Former minister and senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar, who is in the custody of Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi, has moved the division bench of the Karnataka High Court against the order of a single-judge bench of the High Court, which on August 29 dismissed his petition questioning the summons issued against him by the Enforcement Directorate in an illegal money transfer case registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Mr Shivakumar's advocate pressed for an early hearing of the appeal. However, the case has been posted to September 11 before the division bench headed by Chief Justice A.S. Oka.
ED had served summons to Mr Shivakumar and four others, asking them to appear before authorities at ED office for hearing. After the single-judge bench dismissed his plea, the former minister appeared before ED and was eventually arrested. Later a Delhi court handed him over to ED for custodial interrogation.
Following income tax raids conducted at the residences of Mr Shivakumar in Bengaluru and Delhi, where unaccounted money of around `8.59 crore were seized, the Principal Director of IT had granted sanction for prosecution of offences punishable under sections of IT and IPC Act.
