Bengaluru : A case of sedition and defamation has been filed against former Karnataka chief ministers Siddaramaiah and HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday.

Acting on the complaint filed by activist Mallikarjuna, the Commercial Street police booked Kumaraswamy, Siddaramaiah, senior congress leaders -DK Shivakumar, Parameshwara, Dinesh Gundu Rao, and a few IPS officers on charges of sedition, defamation and under 23 other Sections of IPC for protesting against the income tax raids during Lok Sabha elections between March 27 and 28, this year.

The complainant alleged that then chief minister Kumaraswamy had leaked information about I-T raids on the premises of the JD(S) and Congress leaders even before the taxmen could conduct the raids.

Mallikarjuna alleged that the protest staged by legislators of then ruling parties in front of the I-T office on Queen’s Road on March 27 was a clear violation of the Model Code of Conduct.

In his complaint, he also stated that the leaders raised slogans against I-T officials saying they were “BJP agents”, which he stated amounted to obstruction of duty.