The Income Tax Department today conducted searches at multiple locations in Delhi and Karnataka related to Karnataka Energy Minister DK Shivakumar in connection with a tax evasion probe case. <br/><br/>IT officials said, five crore rupees cash was recovered from his Delhi residence. They said, a total of 39 premises of the Congress leader and his family are being searched by a team of about 120 officials with the aid of central paramilitary forces.<br/><br/>Mr Shivakumar is hosting his party's MLAs from Gujarat who have been brought to the Bengaluru resort till the day of the Rajya Sabha elections on the 8th of this month. The Congress legislators were taken to the resort after six of their colleagues quit the party. The IT department is also investigating charges of alleged role of money power and huge transfer of illegal funds for these polls.