Café Coffee Day owner & former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna's son-in-law raided pic.twitter.com/RhKLwyFkTm — TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) September 21, 2017Income Tax raids on VG Siddhartha: #Visuals from Café Coffee Day HQ in Bengaluru. pic.twitter.com/GROf1wpun5 — ANI (@ANI) September 21, 2017BENGALURU: Income Tax officials began raids on the offices of Cafe Coffee Day founder and investor V.G.Siddhartha at multiple locations in Mumbai , Bengaluru and Chennai, including his hometown of Chikmagalur in Karnataka.The search operations began in the morning, and are continuing now. Initial reports said the IT teams conducted searches at about 20 locations including at Siddhartha’s residence in Bengaluru, his Coffee Day, and Way2Wealth offices. Siddhartha is the son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister and Foreign Minister in the UPA regime S.M.Krishna. Shivakumar was Urban Development Minister in S.M.Krishna’s government in 1999-2004.The raids have raised eye-brows among the political watchers in Karnataka.

Source: Economic Times September 21, 2017 05:17 UTC