By News Agency of Kashmir
Jammu : Former Minister and PCC chief Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed today made a statement in Legislative Assembly and described the allegation of corruption leveled against him by a member of the House as an ‘attempt to defame him and his party’.
Giving details of the file under questioned with regard to allegation of corruption Sayeed said that he had received the file on June 22, 2007, Friday and after finding the papers upto the mark he approved it within two hours. “Where comes the question of accepting the bribe” he asked and said the whole thing was conspiracy and a drama staged to defame him.
“In order to help free and fair inquiry into the matter, I resigned from both the posts of a Minister and President JKPCC”, he maintained.
Saying that the member never brought to his notice any matter of bribing despite the lapse of seven months since the time he had approved the file, “how come the matter was now raised pointing finger towards a Driver, Special Assistant, PRO, Private Secretary and Peon depicting contradiction itself”, he lamented.
“The driver accused in the matter is close to the family of the member who has leveled the allegation and calls him ‘brother and his mother Mummy’ in personal capacity”, Peerzada disclosed.
Sayeed presented a photo copy of the file, under question, to the speaker for the members to go through it and ascertain the facts by themselves.