Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has rejected the PDP demand for his resignation over the alleged death of National Conference worker Haji Syed Yusuf in police custody. Dubbing PDP as utterly irresponsible, he said he is not going to be caged in by their vicious campaign.

Answering questions in Srinagar he said the two workers, Abdul Salam Reshi and Mohammed Yusuf Bhat, had complained that Yusuf had taken over one crore rupees from them for membership of legislative council or minister ships. He said, he had immediately asked Minister of State for Home Nasir Wani to call the IG (Crime) Raja Aijaz and handed them over to the police. He said his involvement in this case ended at that point. He said it is only unfortunate that the next day Haji Yusuf died of a massive heart attack and the political opposition has tried to make a controversy out of it.