State govt transfers IMA scam to CBI

Bengaluru: The probe of multi-crore IMA scam was handed over to CBI by BJP-led Karnataka Government on Tuesday.

Addressing presspersons Advocate General Prabhuling K Navadagi informed about the transfer to the Karnataka High Court during the hearing of public interest litigation seeking directions to the state handover the case to CBI.

The Advocate General placed the notification dated August 19, 2019, wherein State accorded sanction to handover the case to the CBI, before the division of bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Mohammad Nawaz.

Taking note of the same, the court said that the SIT will continue the probe till the CBI takes over the case.