Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate issued summons to Yousuf Sharif alias KGF Babu, who contested the Assembly elections from Chickpet, and the businessman’s aides have said that he has traveled to New Delhi on Wednesday for a questioning at the Directorate head office.

The investigating officials of the Directorate found a total of more than Rs 70 crore in the accounts of Babu’s relatives during a recent raid.

The ED, on finding evidence of Babu indulging in illegal transfer of huge amounts of money, conducted the raid on his residence and office in the city.

A team of more than 20 ED officials raided buildings owned by Babu, including his residence Ruksana Palace Nivasa in Vasanth Nagar, Umra Developers and Umra Real Estate Company.

The officials also checked the documents in the buildings during the raid and confiscated documents in relation to the case.

Babu’s first wife Ruksana, his second wife Shajia, daughter Umra Fareef, son Afnan and other close relatives are learned to have 23 bank accounts. Babu himself has 12 bank accounts in his name.

The bank accounts had a total amount of more than Rs 70 crore.

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Vadodara, Jan 12: An associate professor of a university in Gujarat's Vadodara has been arrested for allegedly stalking and intimidating a woman student, police said on Sunday.

Mohammed Azhar Dheriwala, an associate professor of Hindi at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), allegedly harassed the student and threatened to end her career, an official from Sayajigunj police station said.

Dheriwala, who has been associated with MSU for 23 years, was arrested on Saturday night.

Police inspector Z N Dhasura said the accused was earlier suspended based on the recommendation of the University's internal complaints committee (ICC) of the women's grievance redressal cell (WGRC) after another student accused him of sexual harassment.

The complainant, a second-year Master of Arts student, has alleged that Dheriwala approached her on the afternoon of January 4 and asked her to accompany him to his house.

When she refused, he allegedly threatened to end her career and even followed her to her residence, she stated in her complaint.

Dhasura said a case was registered under sections 78 (stalking), 352 (intentionally insulting someone to provoke a breach of peace) and 351 (2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).