How DK Shivakumar tried to guard himself from corruption investigation by threatening the very officer who’s the model new CBI Director: Full particulars
On May 14, the DGP of Karnataka, Praveen Sood was appointed because the model new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as per an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Earlier he was working as a result of the DGP of Karnataka and was centered by Congress chief DK Shivakumar alleging his affiliation with the BJP which was in power inside the state in the mean time.
The Congress chief had moreover vowed to take movement in opposition to him if the celebration would come once more to power inside the state, nonetheless, the high-powered alternative committee headed by PM Modi appointed Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a interval of two years. This is after the Congress recorded a victory inside the Karnataka Assembly elections.
In January 2020, Sood, a member of the state cadre and an IPS officer from the 1986 batch, succeeded Ashit Mohan Prasad as a result of the Karnataka DGP.
Congress alleged Police bias within the route of BJP
Reportedly, the state Congress criticized Sood in March of this yr inside the lead-up to the Assembly elections, charging the DGP with alleged bias for the BJP. DK Shivakumar, the highest of the Karnataka Congress, accused the police of pursuing circumstances in opposition to his celebration members nonetheless remaining silent regarding the BJP. He tried to divert the investigation into the circumstances filed in opposition to Congress by blaming the Police to have allegedly nurtured a easy nook for the BJP. He declared that the Congress would provoke movement in opposition to Sood if it formed the next administration.
“This DGP is a ‘Nalayak’. Let our government come. We will take action against him. Congress had also written to ECI to remove him. I thought he (Praveen Sood) was a respected man. Immediately, a case should be registered against him and he should be arrested,” Shivakumar had talked about.
“He has finished three years in service. How many days do you want to keep and worship him? He has been filing cases only against Congress. He has registered more than 25 cases against us and not a single case against BJP leaders. Let our government come. We will take action against him,” he had added once more then.
The Congress chief vowed to take movement in opposition to the then DGP after the police allegedly didn’t take movement in opposition to the individuals who put up posters of Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda in Mandya ahead of the Prime Minister’s go to. Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda fought had fought Tipu Sultan to safeguard the family of Mysuru Maharajas and to protect the state.
DK Shivakumar talked about in March that larger than 25 circumstances had been filed in opposition to its employees in reference to quite a lot of factors, along with the ‘Pay CM’ advertising marketing campaign in opposition to Basavaraj Bommai nonetheless no case was registered in opposition to BJP employees.
3 had been shortlisted from over 115
The Prime Minister’s alternative committee narrowed the pool of candidates down to some candidates on Saturday, nonetheless the course of was tough because of the opposition marketing consultant on the panel, Congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, voiced his displeasure with the technique and demanded that or not it is restarted.
The Department of Personnel and Training reportedly provided a list of over 115 folks for the place beforehand. It is claimed that Chowdhury launched this up and acknowledged that the service info, non-public information, and integrity paperwork of the officers on the guidelines weren’t obtainable to him.
The three shortlisted candidates had been then forwarded to the Cabinet’s Appointments Committee. The totally different shortlisted alternate choices had been Sudhir Kumar Saxena, DGP of Madhya Pradesh, and Taj Hassan, DG of the Fire Service, Civil Defence, and Home Guards.
It is to be saved in ideas that Praveen Sood’s nomination was permitted by a high-level committee that included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, and Leader of the Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Congress chief).
About Praveen Sood
Praveen Sood, a 1986-batch IPS officer from the Karnataka cadre, has served as a result of the State DGP for the earlier three years. Originally, Sood hails from Himachal Pradesh and is an alumnus of IIT-Delhi. He was appointed the Karnataka DGP in 2020. His totally different stints embody Superintendent of Police, Bellary, and Raichur sooner than getting posted to Bangalore metropolis as Deputy Commissioner of Police, Law and Order.
Sood moreover labored as principal secretary of the Home Department, ADGP Karnataka State Reserve Police, and ADGP Administration. He was slated to retire in May 2024. However, collectively along with his appointment because the model new Director of the CBI, he’ll now work for a tenure of two years, guaranteeing his presence in office until not lower than May 2025. It needs to be talked about that an present Director of the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) can serve for a most interval of 5 years and a minimal tenure of two years.
In 1996, Sood moreover acquired the Chief Minister’s Gold Medal for glorious service. In 2002, he acquired the Police Medal for Meritorious Service, and in 2011, he acquired the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service.
Karnataka HC simply currently dismissed Shivakumar’s plea tough state’s demand for CBI probe in his case
Last yr in October, DK Shivakumar had acquired a summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to a money laundering investigation. He was beforehand questioned by the ED in Delhi on September 19 for larger than 5 hours. Then, DK Shivakumar talked about that he was moreover questioned over the National Herald problem and family donations to the Rahul and Sonia Gandhi-run Young Indian Private Limited perception.
In one different money-laundering case, the ED had detained Shivakumar on September 3, 2019, and the Delhi High Court had granted him bail in October of that exact same yr. After learning a number of value sheet filed in opposition to him by the Income Tax division, the corporate lodged a price sheet in opposition to him and others on this matter in May of this yr.
Recently, a current case was lodged based mostly totally on an FIR filed in opposition to him on corruption costs. On April 20, the Karnataka High Court dismissed the Congress chief’s plea tough the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state authorities’s decision looking for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the disproportionate property case in opposition to him. He had filed an utility saying that the Karnataka authorities’s order for the CBI probe was fallacious.
In 2019, the BS Yeddyurappa authorities sanctioned an investigation in opposition to DK Shivakumar. At that time, the CBI registered an FIR with the permission of the state authorities. Earlier, the CBI had assessed the property after the Karnataka Congress chief had made a press launch that he is a farmer and getting earnings from agriculture.
Notably, the affidavit filed by Shivakumar whereas submitting his nomination papers for the May 10 Assembly polls revealed that the wealth of Congress’s Karnataka chief had elevated by 68 per cent as compared with 2018. In the affidavit submitted by Shivakumar for the Assembly polls, Shivakumar pegged his complete property and other people of his family members at a blended price of Rs 1414 crores.
In his affidavit for the 2013 Assembly polls, the property held by the Congress chief’s family had been valued at Rs 251 crores whereas, inside the 2018 affidavit, the blended price of the property held by his kin was pegged at Rs 840 crores. Shivakumar moreover declared his annual earnings at Rs 14.24 crores whereas his partner’s annual earnings is Rs 1.9 crores.
The state of affairs seems to have turn into unfavourable for DK Shivakumar after Praveen Sood took up the place of newest CBI Director because the earlier had threatened and alleged the then DGP of favouring the BJP. The High Court has dismissed DK Shivakumar’s plea tough the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state authorities’s decision looking for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the disproportionate property case in opposition to him.
