Srinagar, July 29 (PTI) The CBI has informed the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly that neither Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nor Union Minister Farooq Abdullah figured in the investigations into the 2006 sex scandal.

Assembly Speaker Akbar Lone said he had received a communication from the CBI to this effect.

"Yes, I have received a letter from CBI Director (Ashwani Kumar) stating that neither the Chief Minister nor Farooq Abdullah were involved in the sex scandal," he said.

The allegations were levelled against Omar and his father by senior PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzzafar Hussain Beigh on the floor of the House yesterday triggering a political storm in the state that led to the resignation of the Chief Minister.

...It is clarified that nine chargesheets have been filed in connection with RC(S)2006/SCR/III in competent courts against 17 persons.