{"id":315954,"date":"2019-10-23T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315954"},"modified":"2019-10-23T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:55:23","slug":"delhi-high-court-grants-bail-to-congress-leader-dk-shivakumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-high-court-grants-bail-to-congress-leader-dk-shivakumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi high court grants bail to Congress leader DK Shivakumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315955 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shivakumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar.jpg 665w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-571x420.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/>Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar who was lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case, was on Wednesday granted bail by the Delhi High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court directed that Shivakumar be released on bail on furnishing a bond of Rs 25 lakh plus two sureties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in September and was sent to Tihar Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi met him in Tihar jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shivakumar a seven-time MLA in Karnataka was booked along with others for alleged offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last year, the Income Tax Department had filed a case against Shivakumar and his aides before a special court in Bengaluru on charges of alleged hawala transactions and tax evasion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar who was lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case, was on Wednesday granted bail by the Delhi High Court. The court directed that Shivakumar be released on bail on furnishing a bond of Rs 25 lakh plus two sureties. Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1594,2078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315957,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315954\/revisions\/315957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}