DKShi's bail plea: Delhi HC to hear case on Sept 30

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Delhi High Court will be hearing the bail plea of senior Congress leader from Karnataka, DK Shivakumar, on September 30, who is currently in Tihar Jail in a money laundering case.

Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, who is hearing former Union Minister P Chidambaram’s bail petition in the INX Media case, will also hear Shivakumar’s plea.

DK Shivakumar, arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate, moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday, Spetember 26 seeking bail.

Shivakumar has challenged the trial court’s Wednesday order by which his bail plea was dismissed.

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

The case was 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 the huge amount of unaccounted cash on a regular basis through ‘hawala’ channels with the help of three other accused.