DKShi's arrest: Delhi court refuses to increase meeting time of kin, lawyers

New Delhi/Bengaluru: A special court here has refused Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar’s plea to increase the time allotted for meeting his family members and lawyers.

Shivakumar through an application had sought extra time to meet family and lawyers from 30 minutes to 1 hour, however, the has refused to increase the time allotted. Court had earlier allowed family and lawyers to meet DK Shivakumar regularly for 30 minutes.

DK Shivakumar, arrested in a money laundering case, was sent to the ED custody till September 13 by a Delhi court on September 4.

The ED had in September last year registered the money laundering case against Shivakumar, Haumanthaiah, an employee at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, and others.

Shivakumar had to appear before the ED after Karnataka High Court last week dismissed his petition challenging the summons issued to him by the agency.

The ED had filed the PMLA case against him and others based on a charge sheet (prosecution complaint) filed by the Income Tax Department against them last year before a special court in Bengaluru on charges of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions worth crores.

The I-T department has accused Shivakumar and his alleged associate S K Sharma of transporting huge amount of unaccounted cash on a regular basis through ‘hawala’ channels with the help of three other accused.