The High Court of Karnataka on Monday termed as “premature” a PIL petition, which sought a direction to the Enforcement Directorate to consider the petitioner’s representations submitted last month for probing the acquisition of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wristwatch.
A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath, passed the order while dismissing the petition filed by advocate Nataraj Sharma S, while pointing out that the representations were submitted only in the second half of February 2016, and any authority requires sufficient time to consider them.
However, the Bench made it clear that dismissal of the petition would not come in the way of ED considering the petitioner’s representations.
The petitioner, who had submitted three representations between February 17 and 21 to the ED offices in Bengaluru, Chennai and New Delhi, had moved the High Court while complaining that the authorities concerned had not yet considered the representations. The petitioner had also sought a direction from the court from preventing auctioning of the watch.
