AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday. The action was taken after the agency raided his house and grilled him for six hours. Amanatullah Khan also rubbished the allegation against him and accused the agency of “harassing me for two years… slapping false cases (and) creating problems”.
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AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate Monday in connection with alleged irregularities in appointments to the Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties believed to be worth ₹ 100 crore.
The AAP leader’s arrest follows dramatic scenes from the federal agency’s raid on his Delhi residence this morning; in a video statement on X he accused the ED of acting insensitively, stating the raids had upset his mother-in-law, a cancer patient operated on last week.
“The ED has come to arrest me on the pretext of a search. My mother-in-law is a cancer patient… she was operated on four days ago. She is at my home. I informed the ED of this…”
In a self-made video, the AAP MLA said that the investigative agency had been continuously harassing him for the past two years.
“It is seven in the morning, and the ED has come to arrest me in the name of a search warrant. My mother-in-law has cancer, and she is currently at my home. I have written to them, and I have also replied to each of their notices. These people have been harassing me continuously for the last two years. Their only aim is to break our party. We are not going to bow down, and we are not going to break,” Khan said.
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ED Raids Khan’s Home
Visuals from this morning showed an elderly woman lying on a bed as Mr Khan speaks to a man – possibly an ED officer – and asks for four weeks’ time. To this the man responds, “Why do you believe we are here to arrest you…” and Mr Khan shoots back, “Why else are you here?”
A woman, who might be Mr Khan’s wife, is heard saying, “What do you need to search at a three-room house. Why do you have to turn my home upside down every time?”
Amanatullah Khan becomes the fourth high-profile AAP leader to be arrested by a central agency since ex Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in February last year; the others include Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The latter three were arrested – Mr Sisodia and Mr Kejriwal by the ED and Central Bureau of Investigation, for apparent good measure – in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam.
The agency had recently moved a complaint against Khan for not appearing before the agency in connection with the alleged irregularities in appointments in the Delhi Waqf Board case and leasing of its properties.
The federal probe agency had alleged that Khan had elevated his role from witness to accused by filing an anticipatory bail plea and was running away from the investigation. ED’s lawyer further stated that they were never able to conclude the probe against him because he was not presenting himself before the agency.
A charge sheet has already been filed against four accused persons and one firm. It has been alleged that Waqf Properties worth ₹100 crore were given on lease illegally. It is also alleged that 32 contractual employees were appointed to the Delhi Waqf Board during the chairmanship of Khan, who flouted the rules.
