Gupkar alliance says ED summon to Mehbooba Mufti’s mother is humiliating.

KEY POINTS :

• Mehbooba Mufti was also asked by the central agency in March this year in connection with a separate money laundering case.
• Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has condemned the Enforcement Directorate’s summon to Mehbooba Mufti’s mother Gulshan Nazir as “highly humiliating” and a “coercive act”.

Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has condemned the Enforcement Directorate’s summon to Mehbooba Mufti’s mother Gulshan Nazir as “exceptionally humiliating” and a “coercive act”.

“The summoning of a widow of former Union domestic minister, overdue Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, with the aid of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is extraordinarily humiliating, and there are not sufficient words to condemn such coercive acts.

 She is a vintage and frail female, and summoning her is nothing but pressure tactics of the authorities. The irony is that the summon turned into issued just hours after the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) declined to meet the visiting Delimitation Commission,” PAGD spokesman Mohamed Yusuf Tarigami stated in a statement.

Nazir, in her 70s, has been requested to be gift before the ED zonal workplace in Srinagar on July 14. According to news organisation PTI, the case filed below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is connected to the healing of at the least two diaries following raids on an alleged companion of Mehbooba. 

The diaries incorporate info of some purported bills made from the leader minister’s discretionary fund in alleged contravention of policies. These finances are supposed to have been diverted in the course of the PDP rule inside the erstwhile state. 

A few lakh rupees from those budgets are presupposed to were transferred into the accounts of Nazir and a few others, officials told the news agency.

Mehbooba became also wondered by using the principal employer in March this yr in connection with a separate cash laundering case. She had then alleged that those talking in opposition to the Central government have been being hounded with the aid of National investigation corporations consisting of ED. 

On Wednesday, she stated summons to her mom become some other attempt with the aid of the Centre to “intimidate” political fighters.

“On the day PDP selected not to fulfil [the] Delimitation Commission, ED sent a summon to my mom to seem in person for unknown fees. In its tries to intimidate political opponents, GOI [Government of India] doesn’t even spare senior citizens. Agencies like NIA & ED at the moment are its tools to settle scores,” mufti wrote on social media.

Gulshan Nazir, a wife of former Jammu and Kashmir leader minister and PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, turned into served the summon on Tuesday, the day PDP stated it would stay far from the delimitation workout in advance of an election in Jammu and Kashmir, calling it a “pre-deliberate” technique aimed toward disempowering humans and for realising a selected political party’s “political vision”.

The PAGD said the summon turned into aimed to “silence the genuine demand for the reversal of unilateral and unconstitutional selections of August five, 2019”, referring to the day when Parliament scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special reputation through abrogating Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile nation into two Union Territories.

The Bharatiya Janata Party country spokesman Altaf Thakur but refuted the allegation of misuse of probe company and stated that the ED need to be doing an investigation on a few foundations. “If they may be clean, they shouldn’t fear,” he stated.