The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned former
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah in connection with alleged
misappropriation of Rs 43 crore when he was the chairman of J& K Cricket
Association, a move his son and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah
decried as “political vendetta.”  

50-year-old Omar slammed the move as a “political
vendetta” for the formation of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar
Declaration.

He tweeted, “The party will be responding to this ED
summons shortly. This is nothing less than political vendetta coming days after
the formation of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration. To set the
record straight no raids are being conducted at Dr Sahib’s residence.”

He added that the party “will be responding to
this Enforcement Directorate summons shortly.”

The case
Farooq Abdullah is being questioned for is based on an FIR filed by the CBI, as
per PTI report. The FIR named former Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association
office-bearers Mohammed Saleem Khan and Ahsan Ahmad Khan.

The Central
Bureau of Investigation further filed a charge
sheet naming Farooq Abdullah, Mir Mazoor Gazanffer, Bashir Ahmad Misgar and Gulzar
Ahmad Beigh over ‘misappropriation of funds” amounting to Rs 43.69 crore.

The money was siphoned from grants given by Board of Control for Cricket in
India to promote the game in the state between 2002-11, reported PTI.

The ED further said that their probe revealed that JKCA had received Rs 94.06 crore from BCCI in three
different bank accounts during financial years 2005–2006 to 2011–2012.