Shivakumar hits out at I-T dept over gifting phones
Former minister and Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Sunday lashed out at investigating agencies for serving notices on him for gifting phones to a few MPs, including some from the BJP, and not on those who received the devices.
Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on September 3 in an alleged money laundering case and was in judicial custody at the Tihar Jail.
On Saturday, he returned to a rousing welcome from Delhi to Bengaluru after getting bail.
Holding a press conference at the party office on Sunday, Shivakumar said, As irrigation minister I had to deal with certain issues. Some people asked me to give them some latest phones, which I gave. Immediately I received a notice from the I-T department."
"Following the notice, I showed expenditure from personal account, not from any other," he said.
He said barring three persons, all other people whom he gifted phones had accepted them.
"All those who gave statements (against me) have received phones ...