The case towards AAP’s Amanatullah Khan pertains to alleged irregularities in Waqf appointments
New Delhi:
Officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the residence of AAP chief Amanatullah Khan this morning in reference to the company’s investigation right into a cash laundering case towards the MLA. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in appointments in Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties.
Mr Khan put out a video assertion on X through which he mentioned the ED staff has plans to arrest him. “The ED staff has come to arrest me on the pretext of a search. My mother-in-law is a most cancers affected person, she was operated upon 4 days again. She can also be at my dwelling. I had knowledgeable this (to the ED),” he mentioned.
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Alleging that the company’s intention is to arrest him, he mentioned, “They’ve been harassing me for 2 years, slapping false circumstances, creating issues. They’re harassing our complete get together. Their goal to interrupt our get together. I enchantment to the folks of Okhla to hope for me and promise that we are going to get all of your work completed. Don’t fret, we is not going to get scared.”
Visuals present an aged girl on a mattress as Mr Khan speaks to a person — apparently an ED official — on the opposite facet of a mesh door. “I need 4 weeks’ time. My mother-in-law has been operated upon,” he says. The person outdoors the gate replies, “Why do you consider we’re right here to arrest you?” The legislator replies, “Why else have you ever come?” A lady, apparently Mr Khan’s spouse, is heard saying, “What do it’s essential to search at a three-room home. Why do you need to flip my dwelling the wrong way up each time?”
“She has most cancers and he or she has been operated upon. I’ll take you the court docket if something occurs to my mom. She will’t even stand,” the girl provides.
Prime AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh have hit out on the BJP authorities on the Centre and accused it of concentrating on those that elevate their voice towards the ruling get together.
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“That is the one work left with ED. Muffle each voice raised towards BJP. And jail those who don’t break,” mentioned the previous Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, who was just lately granted bail in a cash laundering case.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh, additionally arrested earlier in a cash laundering case, questioned if the probe towards Mr Khan is “comedy”.
The CBI, he mentioned, has advised a court docket that no monetary crime was dedicated on this matter. The Okhla MLA had been arrested on this case and the court docket mentioned no corruption was dedicated, Mr Singh added. The ED, he mentioned, searched Mr Khan’s dwelling final 12 months too, and located nothing.
BJP chief and Chief of Opposition in Delhi Meeting mentioned Mr Khan is a infamous, corrupt and anti-social ingredient. “I need to ask folks within the AAP, if you’re presenting hooliganism and corruption like this, it reveals how Arvind Kejriwal’s politics misleads folks.”