Karnataka High Court Stays Proceedings Against Deputy CM DK Shivakumar In Defamation Case Filed By State BJP Unit
In an interim order handed immediately, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket stayed the trial courtroom proceedings in opposition to State Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in a prison defamation case filed by the State BJP unit. The identical aid was additionally prolonged to the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
A bench of Justice SR Krishna Kumar issued discover to the respondent, returnable on July 29. Notably, in the identical case, the Excessive Court docket had earlier stayed the trial in opposition to Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in January this yr.
Senior Advocate Ok Shashi Kiran Shetty and Advocate Surya Mukundaraj appeared for Shivakumar. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) was represented by Advocates S A Ahamed and Sanjay B Yadav.
The grievance by the state BJP Unit is primarily in opposition to “Corruption Charge card” ads issued by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in native newspapers and ‘false campaigning’ by Congress forward of the 2023 state meeting elections.
It’s the case of the State BJP Unit that the ads broken the BJP’s picture, as they claimed sure ‘charges’ and ‘commissions’ are charged by the BJP for appointment and switch to varied positions in authorities departments. BJP claims it to be false and based mostly on the “fanciful creativeness” of the accused.
BJP claims that the usage of the phrase “hassle engine Sarkar” within the alleged ads by the accused within the place of the extensively in style utilization “double engine Sarkar” confirmed an intention to malign the identify and popularity of the BJP and to have an effect on its possibilities within the elections.
Importantly, it’s the particular case of the BJP that the ads have been issued by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress president by DK Shivakumar, in his capability as its president, and by Siddaramaiah, because the then Chief of Opposition within the Legislative Meeting, and that Gandhi had put up these dvertisements on his X (previously Twitter) account.
