Srinagar, March 5 -- A court here on Wednesday rejected a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking to add fresh charges against National Conference patron and former chief minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah and five others in the alleged multi-crore Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) fund misappropriation case.

The application was dismissed by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar, which held that the ED could not seek addition of offences under Sections 411 and 424 of the erstwhile Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) in a case being investigated and prosecuted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The case pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the JKCA, which is under scrutiny in connection with a money laun...