Supreme Court assigns CBI plea on Shivakumar case to Justice Kants Bench

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 22, 2025) made it clear {that a} Bench led by Justice Surya Kant would hear pleas difficult Karnataka’s choice to withdraw consent to research a disproportionate property case towards Deputy Chief Minister D.Ok. Shivakumar.

Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai famous that the case had earlier been handled by a Bench led by Justice Kant.

The courtroom was listening to a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) towards the State authorities’s choice to withdraw its consent to the probe company for investigating the disproportionate property case towards Mr. Shivakumar. BJP chief Basanagouda R. Patil Yatnal had additionally individually moved the highest courtroom on the problem.

The CBI has accused Mr. Shivakumar of amassing property disproportionate to his recognized sources of revenue between 2013 and 2018, when he was a Minister within the State.

On September 17, final yr, a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan had issued notices to Mr. Shivakumar and the State authorities on the plea filed by Mr. Patil.

The Congress-ruled authorities in Karnataka had discovered the sooner BJP regime’s choice to provide consent to the CBI misguided in legislation, and had withdrawn the consent.

The Karnataka High Court had discovered the petition filed by CBI towards the withdrawal “non-maintainable”, whereas dismissing the case in August 2024.