High Court Sets Aside Probe Agency Chargesheets Against Farooq Abdullah

In a relief to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah, the J&K High Court on Wednesday quashed the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case of alleged money laundering in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).

“I find merit in the plea of the learned counsel for the petitioner and regret my inability to accept the argument of learned Additional Solicitor General of India which he very vehemently projected before me. The complaint, the chargesheet and the charges framed by the designated Special Court (Principal Sessions Court, Srinagar) vide order dated 18.03.2020 are quashed,” J&K High Court judge Sanjeev Kumar observed.

Mr. Abdullah, who was president of the JKCA, was named an accused along with association chairman Muhammad Aslam Goni, general secretary Saleem Khan and treasurer Ahsan Mirza in 2012 for “siphoning money by transferring it into an account not related to the JKCA”. The court, in 2012, ordered the CBI to investigate the case and it filed a chargesheet in 2018.