It may be recalled that on August 31, 2023, the Principal Secretary of the Forest, Ecology & Environment Department wrote letters to the Registrars of Universities and government departments, advising them to submit resumes of eligible candidates for recommendation to the Government of India for nomination to the SEAC and SEIAA. The Principal Secretary urged them to send the resumes of candidates by September 15, 2023.
The Congress government has written to the Karnataka Lokayukta to probe into allegations of accumulation of disproportionate assets against Shivakumar following I-T and ED cases from 2016-2019, government sources said.
Hitting back, the Congress government alleged that the BJP was supporting a “criminal suspect”. Srikanth Poojary, 60, was arrested on December 29, 2023 by the Hubballi police in connection with a case registered in Hubballi on December 24, 1992.