Senior Congress leaders visits DK Shivakumar in Tihar jail

Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, DK Suresh and Anand Sharma visited Tihar jail on Thursday to pay a visit to Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar.

The Congress’ trouble shooter DK Shivakumar is presently in Tihar jail under judicial custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

A special court in Delhi on Wednesday rejected Shivakumar’s bail plea. He was apprehended by the ED in a money laundering case.

The Income Tax department has indicted Shivakumar and his asociate SK Sharma of syphoning huge amount of unaccounted money on a regular basis via hawala conduit with the help of three other accused.

Previously, the ED had filed the money laundering case against DK Shivakumar, Haumanthaiah, a staff at the Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi. The case was established on a charge sheet lodged by the IT department against them last year before a special court in Bengaluru on charges of tax evasion and hawala transactions.