Daijiworld Media Network-Bengaluru (RJP)

Bengaluru, Jan 21: The Karnataka government in its argument in court has said that the cases against its minister D K Shivakumar are not big enough to be probed by CBI.

The cases in question are relating to illegal quarrying and encroachment of forest land.

The government was responding in writing in a case where the plaintiffs have demanded that, the cases in which D K Shivakumar has been named should be handed over to CBI for further investigations. The division bench comprised of Chief Justice D H Vaghela and Justice Ramamohana Reddy.

64 defendants have been named in the case including D K Shivakumar.

The plaintiffs A C Shivaraju and B C Narayana who had gone to the high court on the issue had said that, as D K Shivakumar with others named in the cases, had done illegal quarrying and encroachment of forest land in and around Kanakapura of Ramanagara district, government has lost crores of rupees in revenue. Hence the case should be handed over to CBI.