Srinagar, Tuesday 28 July 2009: An emotional Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he would resign from office on Tuesday after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleged that he was involved in a sensational sex scandal that rocked the state in 2006.

Even as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah threatened to resign after being accused by the Opposition of involvement in the 2006 Srinagar sex scandal, the CBI on Tuesday said the name of the CM never figured in the case in which two PDP ministers were arrested.

There was tumult in the assembly after Abdullah’s announcement with members of his National Conference surrounding him and trying to prevent him from leaving to meet Governor N.N. Vohra.

Highly- placed CBI sources said the name of the Chief Minister had never come up in any way during the probe and that the list of accused questioned by the agency consisted of a little over three dozen people.

In 2006, a minor girl in Srinagar had accused senior politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of raping her. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court intervened and handed over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The CBI later presented a chargesheet and a trial is underway at a sessions court in Punjab.