BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday declined to order a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the Diary Gate controversy.
A division bench headed by chief justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and justice R B Budihal dismissed a public interest litigation, filed by a senior journalist, seeking a SIT probe on Monday stating that the matter was being investigated by the Income Tax Department.
The controversy is about the discovery of two diaries containing entries showing payment of kickbacks to functionaries in the Congress and BJP high command.
The diary, seized from the Congress MLC Govindaraju by the IT Department during a raid, had entries indicating that money was paid by Congress leaders to their high command. Similarly, Congress has also released the diary entries allegedly made by BJP MLC Lehar Singh about money paid to the BJP high command.