Srinagar: The CBI has informed the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly that neither the state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nor Union Minister Farooq Abdullah figured in the investigations into the 2006 sex scandal.
Assembly Speaker Akbar Lone said he had received a letter from the CBI to this effect.
“Yes, I have received a letter from CBI Director (Ashwani Kumar) stating that neither the CM nor Dr Farooq Abdullah were involved in the sex scandal,” he said.
The allegations were levelled against Omar and his father by senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former deputy CM Muzzafar Hussain Beigh on the floor of the House on Tuesday.
This triggered a political storm in the state which led to the resignation of the CM. However, the resignation was rejected and Omar was asked to stay.
It is clarified that nine chargesheets have been filed in connection with RC(S)2006/SCR/III in competent courts against 17 persons.
Neither Omar Abdullah nor Farooq Abdullah’s name figure in the list of the accused persons chargesheeted in the case,” Lone quoted the CBI letter.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday that there was no mention of the state CM in CBI investigations into the case.
The sex scandal rocked the state in 2006 with the arrest of a woman who allegedly claimed during interrogation that she used to send girls including minors to politicians, senior policemen and bureaucrats.
Among the 17 people chargesheeted by the CBI include – GA Mir and Raman Mattoo, both ministers in the then PDP-led government and Mohammed Iqbal Khandey, former principle secretary to the then CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
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