Not happy with the arrest of D K Shivakumar: B S Yediyurappa

The Congress has accused the BJP of indulging in vendetta politics by first targeting former Union minister P Chidambaram and now Shivakumar through central agencies. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has called for a state-wide bandh on Wednesday, which is in effect at Kanakapura and Ramanagara areas. Follow Karnataka Bandh LIVE Updates here

Shivakumar was arrested in a case registered by the ED under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in September last year. The ED case was based on a chargesheet (prosecution complaint) filed by the Income Tax Department in a court in 2017 for alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions worth crores.

The IT Department’s investigation had found Rs 8.83 crore in unaccounted cash in New Delhi in locations linked to the Congress leader. At the time, Shivakumar was sheltering 44 Congress MLAs from Gujarat at a resort outside Bengaluru ahead of a crucial poll in Gujarat for Rajya Sabha seats where Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s fortunes were dependent on the 44 MLAs sheltered by Shivakumar.