DKS plea against bench order: Karnataka High Cour to decide

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday said it will pass orders on the maintainability of the appeals filed by senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar and three others, challenging the order of the single-judge bench which has dismissed their plea questioning the ED summons issued against them in a money laundering case.

Appearing for Mr Shivakumar, senior advocate B.V. Acharya argued that the appeals are maintainable, citing that it comes under the purview of Article 226 of the Constitution as it is civil in nature, while the advocate for the prosecution stressed before the division bench headed by Chief Justice A.S. Oka that the single judge had passed the order by invoking Sec 482 of the CrPC and hence the appeals lack maintainability.

The single-judge bench on August 29 had dismissed the petition in which Mr Shivakumar and others questioned the summons issued against them by the Enforcement Directorate in an illegal money transfer case registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) assured the court that it will not arrest Sunil Sharma, Sachin Narayan and Anjaneya Hanumanthiah, all accused in the illegal money transfer case till September 17.