IT raids on Karnataka minister Shivakumar for the third consecutive day
IT officials raided Shivakumar's home in Delhi's Safdarjung area on Friday morning.
Raids were conducted also on Thursday and Wednesday in the premises linked to Shivakumar.
The Income Tax team first swooped on several properties belonging to the minister on Wednesday, including his homes in Kanakapura and Sadashivanagar and his Eagleton Golf Resort, where the Congress MLAs from Gujarat have been put up.
On Wednesday, the IT department also raided the house of relative of the minister.
After the resignation of former Gujarat chief minister and veteran congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghela, and with three party members joining the BJP, the Congress flew 44 of its lawmakers to Bengaluru ahead of Aug 8 Rajya Sabha polls, media reported.
According to media reports, IT officials have raided over 60 locations linked with the Karnataka minister in relation to a tax evasion case.
Dismissing the claims of using state machinery to target the opposition parties, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, at the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, stated no Congress MLAs from Gujarat were searched in the Bengaluru resort hours after Karnataka Minister DK Shivakumar was raided by the I-T Department officers.
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