Union minister HD Kumaraswamy, his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy and their aide Suresh Babu have approached the Karnataka High Court seeking quashing of the first information report (FIR) registered against them by the Bengaluru Police following allegations that they had threatened a senior IPS officer.

In their petition, Kumaraswamy and the others have claimed that the complaint made against them by IPS officer and Lokayukta Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief M Chandrashekhar was “malafide” and “politically motivated.”

The petition states that Chandrashekhar, who is probing Kumaraswamy in a case of alleged mining scam, made false allegations against the union minister and the others since the SIT was unable to arrest Kumaraswamy in the case given that he had secured anticipatory bail.

“It was in this background that the respondent number 2 (Chandrashekhar) made the complaint with a deliberate and malafide intention to get the anticipatory bail order cancelled,” the petition reads.

In his complaint made last month, Chandrashekhar had alleged that Kumaraswamy, his son Nikhil, and some others were trying to intimidate him and obstruct the ongoing SIT investigation.

Kumaraswamy’s petition is yet to be taken up for hearing by the High Court.