Srinagar, Dec 2: Reacting to ‘his name being dragged into the family dispute of his ex-colleague Shehla Rashid Shora’, former Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement president Shah Faesal said that he has never met nor consulted any of the terror accused directly or indirectly.The remarks by the IAS officer-turned-politician, who earlier this year left politics, comes in view of Shehla’s father, Abdul Rashid, asking police to probe the ‘anti-national activities’ of his daughter and others. However, Shehla has rejected the allegations, saying that her father is making these accusations after her mother filed a domestic violence case against Abdul Rashid.Faesal further said he will be glad to go before security force agencies and assist in the investigation if required.“As far as my name has been dragged into the family dispute of a former colleague, I want to make it clear that I have neither met nor consulted any of the terror accused persons, directly or indirectly, not to speak of seeking their support or benefitting from them,” Faesal wrote on micro-blogging sit twitter. “While I know the perils of public life, I feel extremely sad to see my name being dragged into something with which I am not even remotely associated,” he said.“I will be glad to go before @JKP NIA CBI ED and assist in the investigation if required,” he added.Shehla, a former JNU student leader, had joined Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement after it was launched by Faesal in March 2019. However, Shehla quit electoral political in October 2019, months after special status of J&K was scrapped.On Monday, Abdul Rashid wrote a letter to Director General of Police (DGP), J&K, alleging that he has been facing death threats from his daughter. He said that Shehla had taken Rs 3 crore from notorious people to join Kashmir politics and urged the police to launch an investigation into her bank accounts. “Just two months before the arrest of Zahoor Watali in Terror Funding Case under UAPA, I was called by him and Engineer Rasheed (Ex-MLA) at Watali’s residence at Sanat Nagar, Srinagar in June 2017,” he claimed, adding that at that time Shehla was in the last semester of her Ph.D in Sociology.
