Karwar: Income Tax Department officials conducted raid on Haliyal Block Congress president Subhash Korvekar’s house and his relatives houses recently in Haliyal. According to sources, Korvekar is a contractor and he is one of the close associates of Minister R V Deshpande.

IT officials conducted raid on Wednesday and it went on till midnight, his father-in-law’s house at Shekhanakatta and his father’s house at Sankanakoppa village in Haliyal taluk.The incident came to light after two days.

Reacting to the IT raid, R V Deshpande said in Murdeshwar, Congress leaders are being targeted by IT department, they should treat everyone equally and it is not fair to conduct raid on Congress leaders only.