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ED Files Chargesheet Against Former Jammu & Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah In Money Laundering Case

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Mr.Farooq Abdullah, 84, was probed by the ED for over three hours in Srinagar on May 31.

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah in connection to a money laundering case linked to the alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association.

Mr. Abdullah, 84, was probed by the ED for over three hours in Srinagar on May 31.

The case is related to alleged irregularities in grants given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). It was alleged that between 2002 and 2011, funds to the tune of over Rs 43 crore (ED now claims it is over Rs 50 crore) were siphoned off from the JKCA coffers. These funds were part of the Rs 112 crore grant given by the BCCI to JKCA.

In 2020, the federal probe agency had attached properties worth Rs 14.32 crore in the case. These belonged to Ahsan Ahmad Mirza, Mir Manzoor Ghazanfar, and Abdullah. As part of that, Abdullah’s Gupkar road bungalow too had been attached, apart from his properties in Jammu. The agency had also filed a prosecution complaint against Mirza.

 

 

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19 Rajya Sabha MPs Suspended For Disrupting The Session

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The action against the 19 Rajya Sabha MPs would likely escalate the opposition’s outrage against the government over what they claim was an attempt to silence voices.

New Delhi: Nineteen MPs of the opposition have been suspended from Rajya Sabha for the rest of the week for disrupting the session today.

Sushmita Dev, Mausam Noor, Dr Santanu Sen, Dola Sen, Santanu Sen, Nadimal Haque, Abhi Ranjan Biswas, and Shanta Chhetri are the Trinamool Congress MPs who have been suspended. A. A Rahim of the CPI-M, Mohammad Abdullah of Left, and DMK’s Kanimozhi are among those who have been suspended.

The latest round of suspension comes a day after four Congress MPs in Lok Sabha were dealt with similar action for the entire monsoon session, ending August 12, for holding placards inside the house despite warnings by Speaker Om Birla to behave.

The house was adjourned for an hour today after the suspended opposition MPs did not leave and continued to protest.

The action against the 19 Rajya Sabha MPs would likely escalate the opposition’s outrage against the government over what they claim was an attempt to silence voices that question the ruling alliance’s economic and social policies.

 

 

 

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