Several Youth Congress workeers faced detainment on Wednesday following a brawl with Police officials during a protest against the arrest of Congress senior leader DK Shivakumar on charges of money laundering. Slogans were shouted against the PM Modi led BJP government and effigies were burnt outside NSUI office. 

While police barricaded the road leading to Parliament, a number of protesters tried to break through and jostled with police personnel. Scores of protesters were detained, forced into two buses and taken to police station.The ED on Tuesday arrested Congress's troubleshooter from Karnataka D K Shivakumar here in connection with a money laundering case following repeated questioning over the past few days, officials said.

The former cabinet minister and sitting MLA from Kanakapura seat appeared before the central probe agency for questioning for the fourth time on Tuesday at its headquarters in Khan Market here. After a long session of grilling, Shivakumar was placed under arrest as per provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), officials said.The agency wants the Congress leader to be put through custodial interrogation and hence he was arrested, they said. 

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DK Shivakumar's mid-arrest tweet

DK Shivakumar congratulated his BJP friends over their  "mission of arresting" the Congress leader, and further cried foul over his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).  In multiple tweets, minutes after his arrest, Shivakumar claimed that the IT and ED cases against him are 'politically motivated' and further called himself a victim of BJP's political vendetta and vengeance. He assured his supporters that he has "done nothing illegal" and that he has faith in the country's judiciary.

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I congratulate my BJP friends for finally being successful in their mission of arresting me.

The IT and ED cases against me are politically motivated and I am a victim of BJP's politics of vengeance and vendetta.

— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) September 3, 2019

I appeal to my party cadre, supporters and well-wishers to not be disheartened as I have done nothing illegal.

I have full faith in God & in our country's Judiciary and am very confident that I will emerge victorious both legally and politically against this vendetta politics.

— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) September 3, 2019

D K Shivakumar of alleged money laundering 

Last September ED had filed a money laundering case against the Congress leader, Haumanthaiah (Employee at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi), and others after carrying out intensive raids in August 2017. The case was filed based on a charge sheet (prosecution complaint) filed by the Income Tax (IT) Department before a special court in Bengaluru on the charges of alleged tax evasion and hawala transaction worth crores. The  IT department had accused Shivakumar and his associate S K Sharma of transporting a big amount of unaccounted tax through 'hawala' channels with the help of three other accused in the case. 

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(With PTI inputs)