Omar main accused in Haji Yousuf case: PDP

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 17: Lashing out at the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, for trying to brazen out the accusations against him in Haji Yusuf case and passing the buck of his own misdeeds onto others, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today said this will not help him as he (Omar) will always stand out in history as the main accused in the sensational case.
“Is it not a fact that Haji Yousuf was summoned by Omar Abdullah himself to his Gupkar residence to settle some murky money dealings involving the first family?”, party’s general secretary Mohammad Dilawar Mir said in a statement here.
Instead of following the systemic procedures by involving the concerned institutions why Omar called Haji at his residence to seek the account of dirty money collected from party aspirants in lieu of MLC and ministerial berths, Mir questioned.
“If anyone else was involved in the crime as insinuated by the CM in his Handwara speech, what stopped him from allowing an investigation after proper registration of a case?” Mir said, adding that Omar will have to answer for all serious corruption charges against him.