Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police filed a case sedition against the Karnataka former Chief Ministers Siddha Ramayya and H.D. Kumara Swamy. The police also filed case against the then Police Commissioner Bengaluru T. Sunil Kumar, his subordinates and some Congress and JD(S) leaders for protesting the I.T raids during Lok Sabha elections.

   A city Court recently directed the Commercial Street police to register a case under various sections of IPC including criminal conspiracy and attempting or abetting waging war against the Government of India, basing on a complaint by an activist A. Mallikarjuna. The case relates to protest near the I.T office in Bengaluru by the leaders including the then Chief Minister H.D. Kumara Swamy against the Income Tax raids at the residences of Congress and JD (S) leaders. The charges are that Kumara Swamy had informed the public about the possible raids after getting inputs about the action. Kumara Swamy had told the media on March 27^th that there was every likelyhood of raids as a large number of Central Security Forces have arrived at Kempe Gouda airport.