Later, it was found that she was part of a larger racket. Following the public outrage, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court intervened and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to handle the probe. The CBI later presented a chargesheet and a trial is underway at a sessions court in Punjab.

The CBI had arrested G.M. Mir and Raman Mattoo, both ministers in the then PDP government, besides Iqbal Khandey, the former principal secretary to then chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in the case