Conspiracy going on to finish me politically: Shivakumar

BENGALURU: With the Central Bureau of Investigation serving notice to Kerala-based Jaihind Communications Pvt Ltd channel headed by him, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday alleged that a big conspiracy is going on to finish him politically.

The central agency issued a notice to the firm on Sunday seeking details of the investments made in the channel by Shivakumar in connection with a disproportionate assets case against the Congress leader.

The Bengaluru unit of the agency, which is probing the case against Shivakumar, had asked the managing director of Jaihind Communications Pvt. Ltd. to appear before it on January 11, 2024, along with all the requisite documents sought by the investigation officer.

Reacting to the latest development, the Deputy CM said if the CBI wants to arrest him, then let them do so as he is prepared for it.

Shivakumar, who is also the Karnataka Congress unit president, wondered how the CBI was issuing notices against his firm though it had all the documents with it.

“There is a big conspiracy going on. Some BJP leaders had said earlier that they would send me to jail. They have conveyed their message to the department concerned. I have asked those who have spoken about me to come for discussion. There is a big plot being hatched,” he said.

Stating that he has not done anything wrong, and he will get justice, Shivakumar said let the CBI conduct any inquiry against him.

To a question about whether he would challenge the notice, he said the CBI is summoning him but “there is no occasion for me to go there.”

To a question whether he had got the notice, he said his firm had got it.

Shivakumar, who is accused in a money laundering case, had spent 51 days in Tihar Jail in 2019.

Recently, the Karnataka government withdrew the permission granted to the CBI to probe cases against Shivakumar, saying that it was ‘not in accordance with law’.