Bangalore: A day after Congress leader Digvijay Singh and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah claimed that Energy Minister D K Shivkumar was not chargesheeted in any case, anti-corruption activist S R Hiremath sent a copy of a chargesheet against him in a land denotification case.

Hiremath, founder-president of National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), sent the 111-page chargesheet filed by the Lokayukta before the 23rd Additional City Civil and Sessions Court, Bangalore, to the Chief Minister.

Hiremath told reporters on Tuesday the chargesheet was filed on June 21, 2012 before the Lokayukta court, which  admitted it and numbered it as Special Criminal Case (SCC) No. 137/2012.

A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde had already stayed on May 1, 2013, the proceedings at a lower trial court in Bangalore before which the Lokayukta police had filed a chargesheet against Shivakumar and others.

The bureaucracy had kept the new government in the dark while Shivakumar was being made minister, he said. He urged the government to immediately suspend Shivakumar from the Cabinet and order an independent inquiry by a Supreme Court judge into the matter.

Meanwhile, Hiremath welcomed the Supreme Court forest bench’s dismissal of the Centre’s interlocutory application for increasing the cap of iron ore production to 50 MTs.

“We also welcome the Supreme Court’s direction asking Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and the Union government to cooperate with the Surveyor General of India for initiating steps to determine the inter-state boundary between the two states,’’ he added.