Income Tax raids are not a rare thing in our country - but the latest high profile raid on Karnataka minister, D K Shivakumar, has once again raised questions over the independence of investigation agencies. Even those who do not hold a brief for the minister, a powerful trouble-shooter for the Congress, question the timing of the raids and the picking up Mr of Shivakumar from the resort where he was looking after 43 Congress MLAs from Gujarat, brought there ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls for safekeeping.
