New Delhi: Former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar was released from Tihar jail on Wednesday night after the Delhi High Court granted him bail in a money laundering case.
According to Tihar jail authorities, Shivakumar was released around 9 p.m. after completing all the formalities.
“He was released at 9 p.m. after we received the court orders,” a senior Tihar Jail official told IANS.
Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on September 3 in connection with a money laundering case.
The high court granted bail to Shivakumar asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25 lakh and two sureties of like amount each. The court directed him not to leave the country without permission.
Shivakumar has been on the radar of the Income Tax Department and the ED since demonetisation in 2016. An Income Tax search at his New Delhi flat on August 2, 2017, led to the seizure of unaccounted cash amounting to Rs 8.83 crore.
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