Overview

• A bench of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran directed that the pleas be listed before Justice Surya Kant’s bench, noting earlier proceedings were heard there.
• The CBI and BJP MLA Basanagouda R. Patil Yatnal are challenging Karnataka’s November 2023 move to revoke the previous BJP government’s 2019 consent for a CBI probe into D.K. Shivakumar’s assets case.
• The Supreme Court has issued notices seeking responses from Shivakumar and the state government, and the matter now awaits a hearing before the reassigned bench.
• The Karnataka High Court dismissed similar challenges as non-maintainable in 2024, including objections to the state’s referral of the case to the Lokayukta.
• Investigators allege Shivakumar amassed assets worth about Rs 74.93 crore beyond known income between 2013 and 2018, while a separate ED money-laundering case against him was later quashed by the Supreme Court.