The Enforcement Directorate has summoned National Conference president Farooq Abdullah for questioning on Thursday in a money laundering case, said official sources. The MP from Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was charge-sheeted by the federal agency in the case in 2022. The summons has asked Abdullah, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, to depose at the ED office in Srinagar, according to a report published by the news agency PTI. The 86-year-old politician is understood to have been called in connection with the federal agency's investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). ED had claimed that in 2004 the then "duly elected Treasurer Mukhtar Kanth resigned and immediately Farooq Abdullah appointed Mirza as Treasurer of JKCA without holding elections as mandated under the JKCA Rules, 1957."

Source: Mint January 11, 2024 15:56 UTC