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.
Delhi: Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, Anand Sharma and DK Suresh arrive at Tihar jail to meet Congress leader DK Shivakumar. He is currently lodged in the Jail under judicial custody of the Enforcement Directorate. pic.twitter.com/9rgHnRJPWv
— ANI (@ANI) September 26, 2019
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.
First published: 26 September 2019, 15:14 IST