New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed the summons issued to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and People's Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case.
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According to the ED lawyer, the matter has been adjourned to March 19, as per the agency's statement that it will not insist on her appearance on March 15.
The 61-year-old leader had moved the Delhi High Court on Tuesday challenging the summons issued to her on March 5 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, adding that she has not been informed whether she was being summoned as an accused or as a witness.
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"The petitioner is not the subject of investigation, nor is she an accused in any of the scheduled offences to the best of her knowledge. Ever since the petitioner was released from preventive detention following the formal abrogation of Article 370, there have been a series of hostile acts by the State, against her acquaintances and old family friends, who have all been summoned by the ED and a roving inquiry about her personal, political and financial affairs was made, in the course of which their personal devices have been seized," the petitioner mentioned in her plea, stating that the summon was a means of bringing undue pressure and harassment upon her.
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Mufti was asked to join the investigation on March 15 at 11.30 a.m. at the Enforcement Directorate's office in the national capital.
(With inputs from IANS)
