<div>Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted fresh searches in continuation with its ongoing investigation against Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar.</div>.<div>The searches were conducted at 10 premises in Bengaluru, Chennai and New Delhi. Sources confirmed that searches were conducted at the houses and offices of individuals with close links to Shivakumar.</div>.<div>Simultaneous searches were conducted at the house of Vijay Mulgund, secretary, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, B S Sridhar, private secretary to Shivakumar, Vishwanath Reddy, a retired IAS officer, and YogeeshHonnur, both close associates of the minister.</div>.<div>Mulgund’s house in Rajajinagar was searched by the sleuths apart from residences of Sridhar and Honnur in other parts of Bengaluru.</div>.<div>Apart from these, the taxmen searched the premises belonging to a certain T Anil Jain in Chennai. Jain is into power-related business.</div>.<div>Sources in Chennai said that the office premises located on Armenian Street near high court, a private school in Adyar area, an organisation in Anna Nagar and a building in Bazulla Road in T Nagar were searched by the authorities.</div>.<div>According to sources, Jain’s company had bagged a power project from Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd.</div>.<div>I-T sleuths also conducted a survey at three premises in Delhi. These premises belong to companies that are into energy-related businesses. Sources said that further probe will be conducted after verifying the documents secured from these premises.</div>.<div>Earlier this month, the I-T department had conducted searches at 60 premises, including Shivakumar’s house in Sadashivanagar in Bengaluru. Shivakumar’s brother and Member of Parliament from Bangalore Rural D K Suresh’s house was also searched.</div>.<div>The raids were conducted at a time when Shivakumar was hosting around 40 Congress MLAs from Gujarat at Eagleton Resort in Bidadi on outskirts of Bengaluru to avoid `horse trading’ in the Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.</div>.<div>The searches that started on August 2 concluded on August 5. I-T department sources had stated that a total of Rs 15 crore cash was seized from various premises, including from two houses situated in upmarket Safdarjung Enclave in Delhi.</div>.<div>Later, Shivakumar had appeared before the I-T sleuths on August 8 and submitted documents. He had again appeared before the officials on August 18.</div>
<div>Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted fresh searches in continuation with its ongoing investigation against Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar.</div>.<div>The searches were conducted at 10 premises in Bengaluru, Chennai and New Delhi. Sources confirmed that searches were conducted at the houses and offices of individuals with close links to Shivakumar.</div>.<div>Simultaneous searches were conducted at the house of Vijay Mulgund, secretary, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, B S Sridhar, private secretary to Shivakumar, Vishwanath Reddy, a retired IAS officer, and YogeeshHonnur, both close associates of the minister.</div>.<div>Mulgund’s house in Rajajinagar was searched by the sleuths apart from residences of Sridhar and Honnur in other parts of Bengaluru.</div>.<div>Apart from these, the taxmen searched the premises belonging to a certain T Anil Jain in Chennai. Jain is into power-related business.</div>.<div>Sources in Chennai said that the office premises located on Armenian Street near high court, a private school in Adyar area, an organisation in Anna Nagar and a building in Bazulla Road in T Nagar were searched by the authorities.</div>.<div>According to sources, Jain’s company had bagged a power project from Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd.</div>.<div>I-T sleuths also conducted a survey at three premises in Delhi. These premises belong to companies that are into energy-related businesses. Sources said that further probe will be conducted after verifying the documents secured from these premises.</div>.<div>Earlier this month, the I-T department had conducted searches at 60 premises, including Shivakumar’s house in Sadashivanagar in Bengaluru. Shivakumar’s brother and Member of Parliament from Bangalore Rural D K Suresh’s house was also searched.</div>.<div>The raids were conducted at a time when Shivakumar was hosting around 40 Congress MLAs from Gujarat at Eagleton Resort in Bidadi on outskirts of Bengaluru to avoid `horse trading’ in the Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.</div>.<div>The searches that started on August 2 concluded on August 5. I-T department sources had stated that a total of Rs 15 crore cash was seized from various premises, including from two houses situated in upmarket Safdarjung Enclave in Delhi.</div>.<div>Later, Shivakumar had appeared before the I-T sleuths on August 8 and submitted documents. He had again appeared before the officials on August 18.</div>
