Srinagar, Sept. 25 -- Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday rejected a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking addition of charges related to receiving and concealing stolen property in the alleged Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) fund scam case.

Justice Sanjay Parihar, however, set aside the trial court's finding that the ED lacked locus standi to move the application, while holding that the agency's substantive plea to invoke Sections 411 and 424 of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) was not supported by the material currently available.

The ED had challenged a March 22 order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CBI cases), which had dismissed its application seeking incorporation of the additional charges in...