Court refuses to stay ED summons issued to Mehbooba Mufti


New Delhi, Mar 19 (IANS): The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to grant stay on summons issued by Enforcement Directorate (ED) to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti.

"We are not granting any relief," a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh said.

She will now appear before ED in three days on March 22 in an alleged money laundering case.

On March 10, the bench had stayed the summons issued to Mufti by the Enforcement Directorate. Mufti was earlier asked to join the investigation on March 15 at 11.30 a.m.

The 61-year-old leader had moved Delhi High Court yesterday challenging the summons issued to her under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

In petition stated that she has not been informed if she is being summoned as an accused or as a witness.

The Petitioner is not the subject of investigation, nor is she an accused adding that in any of the scheduled offences to the best of her knowledge, the plea added.

She apprehended that the summons is a means of bringing undue pressure and harassment upon her.

"Ever since the Petitioner was released from preventive detention following the formal abrogation of Article 370, there have been a series of hostile acts by the State, against her acquaintances and old family friends, who have all been summoned by the ED and a roving inquiry about her personal, political and financial affairs was made, in the course of which their personal devices have been seized," Mufti said in her petition.

 

  

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  • rahulbaba, Mulky

    Fri, Mar 19 2021

    people who are crying vindictive politics have probably been sleeping when UPA was in power.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 19 2021

    All work for one Master ...

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  • Veer, Nagpur

    Fri, Mar 19 2021

    This is an attempt to pressurize, succumb and make Mufti agree to BJP’s terms, laws and rules which are anti national and anti people. If BJP govt was honest, people friendly and guilt free in implementing new rule in Kashmir then this situation wouldn’t have arisen. In the same way Modi too should be answerable to clean chit given to him in 2002 Godhra massacre case.

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  • anthony, mangalore

    Fri, Mar 19 2021

    The Coalation Govt of Mufti and the BJP lies now in tatters. All those who are aligning withe the BJP should learn lessons from these developments. The Country is painfully aware of how the Central Agencies are being misused to target opposition Leaders and Parties. This is the Ugly face of Modi's Maan Ki Baat and his innocent pretensions behind TV cameras in his repeated addresses to the Nation.Central Government Tax and Enforcement Agencies like Income Tax Dept and Enforcement Directorate have rarely raided BJP Leaders over the last six years. It will be nice to know through the media if any BJP leader has been issued any IT or ED Notice during the last six years. ED or IT departments would have known that large sums of money were transacted for luring of MLAs at the time of toppling of non-BJP governments but have turned a blind eye.

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