The agency has registered a new case based on a source of information related to the assets accumulated during Shivakumar’s tenure as minister in Karnataka.
The CBI has so far recovered 50 lakh rupees from multiple premises it has sought in a corruption case related to Congressional leader DK Shivakumar, officials said. PTI he said on Monday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at 14 locations in Karnataka, Delhi and Maharashtra in the case that concerns the accumulation of disproportionate assets, they said. The search operation may expand during the day, officials said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a new case against the leader of Congress based on a source of information from another agency. The information relates to assets accumulated during Shivakumar’s tenure as minister in Karnataka, they said.
Following the FIR search, CBI teams began searches Monday morning at 14 locations: nine in Karnataka, four in Delhi and one in Mumbai. Sources said PTI that places being searched include properties of Shivakumar’s brother and MP from Bengaluru Rural DK Suresh. CBI detectives arrived at his residence in Bengaluru and also at Doddalahalli in Kanakapura, early this morning.
Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala called it a “raid raj” and a “Machiavellian movement” of the BJP government. “The insidious game of intimidation and machinations of the Modi-Yeddyurappa duo executed by a puppet CBI by assaulting @DKShivakumar will not stop us. CBI should unearth the layers of corruption in the Yeddyurappa government. But, ‘Raid Raj’ is their only! ‘Machiavellian Movement’! “Said Surjewala on Twitter.
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Let the front organizations of Modi & Yeddyurappa Govts & BJP, i.e. CBI-ED-Income Tax, know that the workers and leaders of Congress will not flinch or bow down to such devious attempts.Our determination to fight for the people and expose BJP mismanagement only grows stronger. https://t.co/AfoJgxOsGl
– Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) October 5, 2020
Congressional leaders have criticized the BJP governments in the Center and state for the CBI searches, questioning their timing before the Nov. 3 elections to the Sira and RR Nagar Assembly segments.
Previously, Shivakumar was arrested on September 23 last year by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in the money laundering case and was held in Tihar prison under judicial custody.
He was released from jail on October 23 after an order from the Delhi High Court granted him bail.
With PTI inputs
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