New Delhi/Bengaluru: In a move that has sent shockwaves across the Congress, senior Congress leader and Karnataka rising star, D.K. Shivakumar was arrested on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The agency shut its doors thereafter and the Delhi police beefed up security around it as over 50 restive supporters of the Karnataka leader were present at the spot.
At around 9 pm, as its officials took Mr Shivakumar for a medical check- up, his angry supporters surrounded the car he was in and began banging on it. The Congress leader emerged from the car to pacify them before leaving with the ED officials.
During the last four days, the agency has grilled Mr Shivakumar for around 29 hours and it interrogated him for another eight hours from 12 noon on Tuesday.
On Monday, the former minister had turned emotional while accusing the Central agency of denying him permission to return home to perform traditional rituals for his forefathers on the eve of the Ganesha festival.
Minutes after his arrest, D.K. Shivakumar lashed out at the BJP, saying in a tweet that he was a victim of BJP’s politics of vengeance and vendetta, and that the I-T and ED cases against him were politically motivated.
“I congratulate my BJP friends for finally being successful in their mission of arresting me. The I-T and ED cases against me are politically motivated and I am a victim of BJP’s politics of vengeance and vendetta,'” he said sarcastically.
