IT raid: DK Shivakumar moves HC seeking dismissal of ED summons
Bengaluru, February 4: Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar on Monday moved the Karnataka High Court seeking dismissal of summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asking him to attend the enquiry related to IT raid on his flats in New Delhi. But his writ petition has to be taken for the hearing.
About incident
In an IT raid, the officials have recovered Rs 8.90 crore from a house at KR Puram and Safdarjung Enclave Flats in New Delhi. The IT officials have alleged that Rs 6.68 crore recovered from the flat belonging to Sunil Kumar was transported from Bengaluru to New Delhi through hawala method.
The IT officials who have conducted raids on the houses and offices of Shivakumar and his associates, have prepared a report based on the documents they have seized. The IT officials also investigated into the case after recovering the dairies of the accused and prepared 33-page report enlisting the allegations. The same report was handed over to the ED which registered a case against Shivakumar.
When IT officials raided the house of Shivakumar, they got a dairy and in that dairy, there was a code word ‘KG’ and IT officials suspected that hawala transaction was done through this code word. It is the fourth case registered against Shivakumar related to this case. He has been facing the charge of transporting the money through hawala means from Bengaluru to New Delhi and IT officials alleged that 8.5 crore recovered in New Delhi was a hawala money.
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Bengaluru: Four arrested for housebreaking, threats, extortion; fake PSI among accused
Bengaluru: Vidyaranyapura police have arrested four persons, including a man posing as a Police Sub-Inspector (PSI), for allegedly breaking into a house, threatening the occupants, and extorting money while wearing police uniforms.
The arrested accused have been identified as Mallikarjuna, Pramod, Vinay, and Hrithik.
Police said the accused had hatched a plan to pose as police personnel, conduct fake raids, and extort money from residents by intimidation.
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According to the police, Mallikarjuna had failed the PSI examination twice and later falsely projected himself as a PSI. He allegedly conducted photo shoots in his hometown, Siraguppa, wearing a police uniform, baton, cap, and shoes, claiming to be serving as a PSI in Bengaluru.
On December 7, the four accused allegedly went to the house of Naveen in the Vidyaranyapura limits, threatened him with a stick and an iron rod, and claimed they had information that he was selling ganja. Under the pretext of searching, they allegedly extorted ₹87,000 through bank transfer, ₹53,000 in cash kept in the house, and ₹2,000 from his wallet.
Following Naveen’s complaint, Vidyaranyapura police registered a case and launched an operation, leading to the arrest of all four accused. Police have seized ₹45,000 in cash and the car used to commit the crime.
Further investigation is underway.
