Gulshan Nazir, mother of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president chief Mehbooba Mufti, was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Srinagar on Wednesday in a money laundering case.
Ms. Nazir appeared before the ED around 11.30 a.m. and was accompanied by Ms. Mufti. She was questioned for about three hours, officials said.
The ED issued summons on July 6 to Ms. Nazir, wife of former Union Home Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, “in connection with a case registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002”.
Mehbooba’s charge
After the questioning ended, Ms. Mufti said, “The agencies, which were meant to do serious work, have been used against politicians. Unfortunately, politicians, journalists and activists are being punished for speaking truth in ‘Naya Kashmir’.”
She said her mother being summoned by the ED “had a chronology”. “As soon as I showed reluctance to meet the Delimitation Commission and staged a protest on August 5, a summon was issued the next day,” she stated.
M.Y. Tarigami, CPI(M) leader and spokesman of the Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), said, “Summoning aged wife of former Union Home Minister by the ED is a glimpse of coercive tactics employed by the Central government to kill the dissent.”