Bengaluru: Congress leader D K Shivakumar’s wife and mother have gotten respite from the money laundering case as the Delhi High Court has postponed the hearing to November 4.

Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued summons to DKShi’s wife Usha and mother Gauramma in connection with the alleged money laundering case. The summons were challenged by DKShi’s advocates in the Delhi High Court, after which the hearing was postponed.

The court has pronounced that there was no need for Usha and Gauramma to be subjected to interrogation by the ED.

Gauramma’s advocates had appealed before the court that she was aged and unable to travel frequently from Bengaluru to Delhi for the ED’s interrogation. The ED officials, however, did not agree with the arguments.

According to reports, Usha and Gauramma were summoned for an interrogation because the former had given Rs 52.60 crores to DKShi as a loan and she had received a loan amount of Rs 15.86 crores from her father-in-law D Kempegowda and mother-in-law Gauramma.

Gauramma had reportedly given three acres of land, located in Uttarahalli, to her granddaughter Aishwarya (DKShi’s daughter) as a gift in the year 2002 and in 2018, Rs 3 crores was transferred from her bank account to Aishwarya’s bank account.

For this, DKShi’s whole family and close associates have been under the radar of the ED.

However, DKShi was granted bail by the Delhi HC on October 23, after being behind bars in the Tihar Jail for 50 days.