New Delhi:
Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped from flying to London on Tuesday as she is an accused in an alleged money laundering case, which is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
Ms Ayyub was stopped at Mumbai airport before she could board a flight to London.
The Enforcement Directorate is investigating alleged violation of foreign funding rules by Ms Ayyub while collecting donations for COVID-19 relief.
The journalist, however, tweeted the Enforcement Directorate’s summons “very curiously” reached her inbox only after she was stopped at Mumbai airport.
“I was stopped today at Mumbai immigration from travelling to deliver this address and onwards to International Journalism Festival to deliver the keynote speech on Indian democracy. I had made this announcement public over weeks, yet the ED (Enforcement Directorate) summon very curiously arrived in my inbox after I was stopped,” Ms Ayyub tweeted.
