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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant relief to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in an alleged disproportionate assets case filed against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), news agency ANI reported. His plea to quash the case has been turned down. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and SC Sharma said it chooses not to interfere with the order of Karnataka High Court.

"Sorry. Dismissed," the bench said.

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Reacting over the development, Shivakumar said the cases against him was a conspiracy by the BJP and the saffron party was itself involved in many scams during their tenure.

“All of the scams have been created by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP tenure is the father of scams which is why they have been thrown out by people. Now, we are trying to clean up everything. They aren’t able to digest this since their names will come out,” HT quoted him as saying.

Earlier, Karnataka High Court dismissed DK Shivakumar’s plea in this regard and directed the CBI to file its report within three months. The federal probe agency alleged that the Congress leader accumulated wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income between 2013 and 2018. He was a minister in the Karnataka government during this phase.

An FIR was filed by the CBI in 2020 in this case, based on the consent from the BJP government. The Congress government, which took over from the BJP in Karnataka in May 2023, withdrew the consent granted in 2019 following a cabinet decision on November 23, 2023. The Congress has argued that the case was referred to the CBI in 2019 before an FIR was even registered in 2020.

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Shivakumar, in 2021, moved the Karnataka High Court to challenge the FIR.