ED questions former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah second time in three days
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah was summoned once more on Wednesday by the Enforcement Department (ED) for questioning at their Srinagar workplace. This is the second time in three days that Abdullah was questioned once more by the ED.
As per sources, he was questioned in reference to the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) multi-crore rip-off throughout 2002-11. The questioning comes on a day when Abdullah is celebrating his 84th birthday. He reached the ED workplace in Rajbagh round 11 am and was questioned for 5 hours.
His son Omar Abdullah tweeted, “This on a day when my father turns 84!”
Earlier he was questioned on October 19 for seven hours. However, on Wednesday Farooq Abdullah didn’t take questions from reporters ready outdoors the ED workplace.
NC spokesman Imran Nabi Dar issued an announcement expressing anger and mentioned these ways are solely geared toward “browbeating” opposition leaders who elevate their voice in opposition to the BJP’s “divisive politics”. The occasion criticised the federal government for what it known as an “agenda of cornering any voices of dissent”.
“How many times will BJP use CBI, ED, anti-corruption bureau and its other agencies to browbeat opposition? The plot has become predictable. Anyone who speaks against the government or musters courage against its divisive politics will be hounded and summoned,” it mentioned. Terming these ED summons “calculated coercive measures”, Dar mentioned that it’s geared toward curbing Farooq Abdullah’s efforts to weave unity amongst mainstream political events in JK.
Calling the repeated ED summons as stress ways, he mentioned, “What is it that ED forgot to ask during the six hours it interrogated an 83-yr-old Member of Parliament?” The authorities and its companies, the spokesperson mentioned, has no consideration for a law-abiding citizen who’s severely immunocompromised and diabetic.
“Abdullah being treated like this is a proof that the BJP is not even interested in a face-saving act and is completely comfortable with being seen as a bully by the nation,” he mentioned. He mentioned that the “only way to get a clean chit these days is to surrender one’s ideology and join the BJP. We’ve seen this story play out from Assam to Karnataka, from West Bengal to Andhra Pradesh but Dr Abdullah is not going to surrender to the BJP, come what may.”
The final spherical of questioning passed off 4 days after Jammu and Kashmir’s mainstream political events, together with the NC and the PDP, met at Abdullah’s residence and shaped the People’s Alliance for ‘Gupkar Declaration’.
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As per information company PTI, ED officers mentioned on situation of anonymity that Abdullah had been known as once more on Wednesday to acquire some clarifications. He was questioned for the primary time in July final yr in Chandigarh after the company had registered a case underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in 2018.
The officers mentioned Abdullah’s assertion was recorded underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and he was requested concerning the procedures adopted and choices taken when he was the president of the cricket physique, the time when the alleged rip-off is claimed to have taken place. The company is anticipated to file a recent cost sheet within the case quickly, they mentioned.
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