opposition leaders and said the party stood with shivakumar while former mp v s ugrappa called it witchhunting and took exception to the leader being summoned on ganesha chaturthi day for questioningshivakumar had to appear before the agency after the karnataka high court last week dismissed his petition challenging the summons issued to him by the edthe ed had filed a pmla case against him and others based on a charge sheet prosecution complaint filed by the income tax department against them last year before a special court in bengaluru on charges of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions worth croresthe it department has accused shivakumar and his associate s k sharma of transporting huge amount of unaccounted cash on a regular basis through hawala channels with the help of three other accused watch money laundering case ed arrests congress leader dk shivakumar