Bengaluru: The Income Tax officials conducted raids on three members of legislative council (MLCs) in an early morning operation in the city on Tuesday.
Sources in the department said that the raids were conducted after the authorities had found that all three had failed to submit returns of their income and on suspicion that all three had unaccounted money with them.
The MLCs had been identified as: K Govindaraju, who is the president of Karnataka Olympic Association and a close confidante of senior Congress leaders including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, U Mallikarjun, an independent member in the Council who was elected from the Assembly, and CR Manohar, who recently produced a multi-crore movie and a native of Kolar.
Manohar’s house in Sarjapur, in Bengaluru rural, Mallikarjun’s house in Jayanagar and Govindaraju’s house in Domplur were raided besides their respective offices.
“We have seized a large number of incriminating documents from their houses and offices. We will go through the documents and will be able to come to know about their earnings investments and undeclared wealth they hold that were not disclosed yet,” said an official.
The raids are expected to continue till late in the evening.