Srinagar, May 23 -- Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday termed the allegations of him encroaching on evacuee property as "false" and "aimed to malign and harass".

Jammu and Kashmir's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had on Tuesday filed an FIR against Mirwaiz, a bureaucrat and four others in connection with allegations of encroaching evacuee land in connivance with revenue officials in Srinagar.

Reacting to the development, Mirwaiz Manzil Nigeen on behalf of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said he had received no intimation or notice of the matter.

"Fact of the matter is that no property at present - house or land - belongs to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Nigeen. The residential land and house in which he lives in Nigeen was purchased and built...