Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate to its office on March 15, sources said.
She has been summoned in connection with a case of money laundering.
Sources said the case pertains to a matter of “financial embezzlement” in which Mufti’s role has allegedly surfaced and a separate case has been registered by another agency.
ED officials did not divulge details of the case or the matter under probe, claiming it could jeopardise investigations.
With Mufti being summoned, she will be the second key PDP leader being put under the scanner by a central agency in the past few months.
The NIA had arrested PDP youth leader Wahid Parra in November last year, just ahead of the DDC polls in J&K, in connection with its probe into alleged dealings of suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh with terror outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Parra, who went on to win the polls from his constituency in Pulwama, was recently released on bail.
The NIA had alleged Parra paid Rs 10 lakh to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen to ensure its support ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Parra had denied these allegations.
Surjitt Sahani
