Mehbooba Mufti arrives on the Enforcement Directorate workplace in reference to an alleged money laundering case, at Rajbagh in Srinagar, on Thursday.
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday appeared earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) right here in reference to a money laundering case, officers stated. Mufti reached the ED workplace in Rajbagh at 11 am to face questioning in the case, they stated.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president didn’t seem earlier than the company in Delhi on Monday, citing she had prior commitments that might not be cancelled. Her request to ED officers that she be questioned in Srinagar as a substitute of Delhi was accepted.
The 61-year-old chief, who was launched final 12 months after greater than a 12 months in detention following the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing, was served a discover to seem on the ED headquarters in the nationwide capital.
On March 19, the Delhi High Court had refused to remain summons issued to her after she moved the courtroom in search of quashing of the summons in the case. The ED, which had earlier summoned Mufti March 15, had not insisted on her private look at the moment.
“I write to you in reference to the summons issued to me to be present at your Delhi office on March 22. I have challenged in the Delhi High Court the constitutional vires of Section 50 of the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act), under which these summons are issued,” she stated in a letter to the ED.
Section 50 of the PMLA empowers the authority, that’s, officers of the ED, to summon any particular person to provide proof or produce data. People who’re summoned are certain to reply the questions put to them and to provide paperwork as required by the ED officers, failing which they are often penalised below the PMLA.
The PDP chief had stated that with out prejudice to any of the contentions in the proceedings earlier than the excessive courtroom, “I state that I am not in a position to attend the summon on March 22 as I have prior commitments that cannot be cancelled at such short notice”.
“If however you insist we must do it sooner, I am ready and willing to be questioned in Srinagar, preferably at my residence or through video conference from Srinagar,” Mehbooba stated in her letter.
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