evidence: Later in the afternoon, BJP leaders in charge ofOperation Lotus sent a message to the Maharashtra CM that a case be filed against Shivakumar and other Congressmen. Shivakumar, Deora and MLA Naseem Khan were picked up and brought to the University Club house at Kalina and were locked up in a room. "We were sitting peacefully outside the hotel. We were telling the media how the state and police machinery was misused and how our democracy was weakened. MLAs, who should be in Karnataka Vidhan Soudha, are sitting in Mumbai due to BJP. These MLAs must take constitutional means and go to Bengaluru,’’said Deora. [...] Around 3 pm, Shivakumar, Deora and the others were detained. When they were made to sit in the police van, they thought they would be taken to Powai police station, but one of them overheard a police driver and realised that they were being taken to the Mumbai university club house at Kalina.