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Setback for ED in JKCA ‘rip-off’ case as Srinagar court docket blocks transfer so as to add costs

2 min learnSrinagarMar 6, 2026 08:30 PM IST

The court docket of Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace, Srinagar, dismissed a petition by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searching for so as to add costs in a case involving former J&Ok chief minister and NC president Farooq Abdullah and three others.

The order, issued March 2, said {that a} chargesheet has been filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on this case and due to this fact the Enforcement Directorate is “neither the investigating company nor the prosecution company (CBI) within the prompt case.”

Noting that the ED can provoke motion solely upon the existence of a “predicate offence” and can’t act by itself, the CJM mentioned that as per regulation, “if the ED comes throughout a violation of regulation, it can not assume the position of an investigating company and the ED has the responsibility to tell the suitable company, which might begin an investigation.”

Within the present case, the order states, “there may be nothing on file which means that the ED has knowledgeable the CBI concerning the fee of the offence beneath Part 411 & 424 the RPC”.

The case pertains to alleged irregularities in grants given by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) to JKCA at a time when Abdullah was president. In response to investigators, between 2002 and 2011, Rs 43 crore of the Rs 112 crore grant given to the JKCA was siphoned off.

A particular group of the erstwhile state’s police started investigating the allegations in 2012 however when it failed to finish the probe even after three years, two cricketers, Majid Yaqoob Dar and Nissar Ahmad Khan, approached the Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Court docket with a PIL. On September 3, 2015, the court docket handed over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

It was based mostly on the CBI case that the ED registered its cash laundering case.

Naveed Iqbal

Naveed Iqbal is a Senior Assistant Editor at The Indian Specific, and stories from Jammu and Kashmir. With a profession spanning over 15 years in frontline journalism, Naveed gives authoritative reporting on the area’s transition, governance, and the socio-political implications of nationwide insurance policies.

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Regional Specialization: Based mostly within the Srinagar and New Delhi bureaus, Naveed has spent over a decade documenting the distinctive challenges of Jammu and Kashmir. Her reporting is distinguished by deep contextual data of the area’s post-Article 370, statehood debates, and native electoral politics.



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