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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and MLA Amanatullah Khan to four days of Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody. The ED had sought custody for 10 days.
“Four-day ED custody, to be produced on September 6,” said the judge who had earlier reserved its order on the ED’s application.
The money laundering probe against Khan stems from two FIRs, one registered by the CBI in the Delhi Waqf Board-related “irregularities” and another by the Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch related to a case of alleged possession of disproportionate assets.
The ED told the court that some questions were put to Khan during the search but he remained “evasive” and hence was arrested. The agency said that Khan is the main accused.
“Proceeds of crime have been used and laundered to buy property. Cash was also used,” it alleged, according to news agency PTI.
“There was an attempt to misguide the agency,” the ED told the court and accused Khan of non-cooperation, saying that 14 summonses were issued to him and he appeared only once, that too after the Supreme Court’s direction, as per the agency.
Earlier in the day, the national investigative agency arrested Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Waqf Board.
Khan was arrested after ED raided Khan’s residence in Okhla.
Before his arrest, the AAP leader took to X and claimed that ED officials reached his residence to arrest him.
Taking to X, the AAP leader said, ” It is currently 7 am and the ED officials have come to arrest me in my house. My mother-in-law has cancer and had surgery just four days ago; she is also at my house. I have written to them and responded to every notice they sent. Their intention is to arrest me and hinder our work.”
The party also condemned Khan’s arrest and claimed that nothing has been found even after all the agencies have investigated at different levels for the last 8 years. The party further alleged that the central agency has become a tool for BJP to disrupt the atmosphere in Delhi.
“The whole country is seeing how the agencies are being misused and as the elections come closer, these people will increase this kind of pressure even more,” Bhardwaj said.
“Four-day ED custody, to be produced on September 6,” said the judge who had earlier reserved its order on the ED’s application.
The money laundering probe against Khan stems from two FIRs, one registered by the CBI in the Delhi Waqf Board-related “irregularities” and another by the Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch related to a case of alleged possession of disproportionate assets.
The ED told the court that some questions were put to Khan during the search but he remained “evasive” and hence was arrested. The agency said that Khan is the main accused.
“Proceeds of crime have been used and laundered to buy property. Cash was also used,” it alleged, according to news agency PTI.
“There was an attempt to misguide the agency,” the ED told the court and accused Khan of non-cooperation, saying that 14 summonses were issued to him and he appeared only once, that too after the Supreme Court’s direction, as per the agency.
Earlier in the day, the national investigative agency arrested Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Waqf Board.
Khan was arrested after ED raided Khan’s residence in Okhla.
Before his arrest, the AAP leader took to X and claimed that ED officials reached his residence to arrest him.
Taking to X, the AAP leader said, ” It is currently 7 am and the ED officials have come to arrest me in my house. My mother-in-law has cancer and had surgery just four days ago; she is also at my house. I have written to them and responded to every notice they sent. Their intention is to arrest me and hinder our work.”
The party also condemned Khan’s arrest and claimed that nothing has been found even after all the agencies have investigated at different levels for the last 8 years. The party further alleged that the central agency has become a tool for BJP to disrupt the atmosphere in Delhi.
“The whole country is seeing how the agencies are being misused and as the elections come closer, these people will increase this kind of pressure even more,” Bhardwaj said.
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