NEW DELHI: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday approached Delhi high court against Enforcement Directorate summons asking her to appear before it on March 15 in connection with a money laundering case.
The PDP leader has already called the ED summons an effort by the Centre “to intimidate and browbeat political opponents.”
Mehbooba’s petition states that she has not been informed if she is being summoned as an accused or as a witness. She has also not been informed of what she is being summoned in connection with, and the scheduled offence under the PMLA which gave rise to the proceedings in respect of which summons has been issued to her.
The plea added that the petitioner (Mehbooba Mufti) is not the subject of investigation, nor is she an accused, in any of the scheduled offences under the PMLA, to the best of her knowledge.
In her petition, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir alleges that there have been a series of hostile acts by the State, against her acquaintances and old family friends ever since she was released from preventive detention following the formal abrogation of Article 370.
The Enforcement Directorate had on Friday summoned Mufti for questioning on March 15 in a money laundering case.
The 60-year-old PDP leader, who was released last year after more than a year in detention following the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, has been served notice to appear at the ED headquarters in the national capital.
Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Constitution was revoked by the Centre in August 2019 and the state was bifurcated into union territories.
(With inputs from agencies)