Mehbooba Mufti says, “My mother has been summoned by the ED over unknown charges.”

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Tuesday that her mother has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over “unknown charges,” adding that investigating agencies have become “tools” in the central government’s hands to “settle scores.”

On the day PDP chose not to meet the Delimitation Commission, ED sent a summon to my mother to appear in person for unknown charges. In its attempt to intimidate political opponents, the government of India doesn’t even spare senior citizens. Agencies like the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and ED are now its tools to settle scores,” the People’s Democratic Party president wrote on Twitter.

Mufti’s allegations come on a day the delimitation commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, arrived in Srinagar to hold talks over the next four days with various stakeholders on the ongoing process of carving out new constituencies in the region. Earlier in the day, the PDP wrote to Desai stating they won’t attend the exercise which, the party alleged, was “pre-planned” and aimed at “disempowering” the people of Jammu and Kashmir.