<p>Maintaining that phones were tapped during the tenure of chief ministers in the past, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said that he was not worried about the searches carried out on former Bengaluru city police commissioner Alok Kumar.</p>.<p>"The CBI can raid whoever they want," he told reporters at the JD(S) office in the city, adding that he was not connected to the case. To a question that the raid on Alok's residence was pertaining to the phone-tapping incident during his tenure as chief minister, he alleged that several CMs in the past had done it.</p>.<p>On whether the CBI would question him, he said that anyone can be questioned in connection with any case as per law. "Let them come. I am not worried about it as the CBI officials are free to question and investigate," he said.</p>.<p>The remarks came after Alok Kumar was raided by CBI sleuths on Thursday in connection with the phone-tapping case, in which phones of several bureaucrats and politicians were allegedly tapped illegally.</p>.<p>It can be recalled that the B S Yediyurappa-led BJP government had ordered a probe into the phone tapping allegations in the third week of August. Prior to the order, JD(S) rebel legislator A H Vishwanath had accused the Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of tapping phones of more than 300 people.</p>
<p>Maintaining that phones were tapped during the tenure of chief ministers in the past, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said that he was not worried about the searches carried out on former Bengaluru city police commissioner Alok Kumar.</p>.<p>"The CBI can raid whoever they want," he told reporters at the JD(S) office in the city, adding that he was not connected to the case. To a question that the raid on Alok's residence was pertaining to the phone-tapping incident during his tenure as chief minister, he alleged that several CMs in the past had done it.</p>.<p>On whether the CBI would question him, he said that anyone can be questioned in connection with any case as per law. "Let them come. I am not worried about it as the CBI officials are free to question and investigate," he said.</p>.<p>The remarks came after Alok Kumar was raided by CBI sleuths on Thursday in connection with the phone-tapping case, in which phones of several bureaucrats and politicians were allegedly tapped illegally.</p>.<p>It can be recalled that the B S Yediyurappa-led BJP government had ordered a probe into the phone tapping allegations in the third week of August. Prior to the order, JD(S) rebel legislator A H Vishwanath had accused the Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of tapping phones of more than 300 people.</p>
