Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government has approved a proposal to withdraw the CBI case against DK Shiva Kumar into alleged disproportionate assets owned by him.

According to the sources the Karnataka Home Department made a proposal and it was to be placed before the State Cabinet to hand over the investigation to the state police or the anti-corruption authority Lokayukta.

The State Government will look at approaching the Court, now that the proposal has been cleared by the cabinet. The previous BJP government had handed over the case to the CBI. Karnataka Advocate General K Shashi Kiran Shetty put together the proposal to withdraw the case against Shiva Kumar.

The Karnataka High Court dismissed the Shiva Kumar’s request in April 2023 to cancel the order by the Yediyurappa  Government. The Court had said that it won’t interfere in the matter as the CBI is almost complete with its investigation. It gave the CBI three months till mid-January – to give a report.

ED had started its own probe against Shiva Kumar based on the income tax department’s searches on his residence and offices in 2017. Later, the CBI sought sanction from the State Government to file a FIR, which the Yediyurappa Government allowed in September 2019. The CBI filed the FIR against him in October 2020.