“Let them prove a single case, I am ready to face the consequences,” mentioned PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti concerning the circumstances being probed by numerous investigating businesses, together with the NIA which has arrested a senior chief of her occasion on terror funding expenses.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister additionally mentioned it’s mortifying that the probe businesses are working an “audit” on the mausoleum of her father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
In her first response after her occasion’s youth wing chief Waheed Parra was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Mehbooba mentioned the probe businesses have been burrowing by way of authorities recordsdata and her financial institution accounts for the final two years and located nothing.
In an interview with PTI, she mentioned, “It’s mortifying and disgusting that they are now running an audit on the mausoleum of my late father. How much lower will they stoop?”
Sayeed died in 2016 and was laid to relaxation in his ancestral graveyard at Bijbehara in south Kashmir.
There was no response both from the NIA or the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to the PDP chief’s claims.
Referring to the alleged bunglings in Jammu and Kashmir Bank throughout her tenure because the chief minister, Mehbooba mentioned, “What bungling? Let them prove a single case where I or anyone close to me has indulged in any kind of financial misappropriation. I am ready to face the consequences.”
On the arrest of Parra by the NIA, she mentioned, after having “failed to prove any corruption charge against me, they are resorting to other ways of maligning me by linking me to terror funding”.
“Waheed is a great advocate of democracy, reconciliation and dialogue. He has motivated thousands of youths to join the mainstream. All these charges are figments of their imagination to force me to change track and parrot their narrative,” she mentioned.
Parra was arrested by the NIA in November for allegedly getting in contact with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists searching for assist for Mehbooba throughout her Parliamentary elections.
The NIA alleges that Parra had paid cash by way of suspended Deputy SP of Jammu and Kashmir Police Davinder Singh, who has already been arrested for ferrying terrorists from Srinagar to Jammu.