K’taka Court stays defamation case against D.K. Shivakumar  

The High Court of Karnataka on Friday stayed the criminal proceedings against D.K. Shivakumar, Deputy Chief Minister and president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), in a defamation case filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s State unit for issuing “defamatory” advertisements accusing the BJP government of corruption in mainstream newspapers during the campaign for the Legislative Assembly elections in 2023.