AAP’s Amanatullah Khan cires foul after ED raid; ‘Party surrounded by criminals’, says BJP

NEW DELHI: After Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrived at the house of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday, Union Minister Giriraj Singh said that the party is surrouned by criminals and if there are any allegations against the AAP leader, then the court will decide on it.

“AAP is a party surrounded by criminals. The party, whose chief minister is in jail, someone is in jail for one scam and someone for another… no person is above the law. If there are any allegations against Amanatullah Khan, then the court will decide on it”, he said.

The AAP MLA’s cousin Minnatullah Khan said that despite investigation by Anti-Corruption Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation, nothing has been found yet. He said, “His mother-in-law has been operated on recently, she is a cancer patient. Despite investigation by ACB and CBI, nothing has been found yet…Now ED is investigating.”

Earlier today, Amanatullah Khan claimed that the ED officials had arrived at his house in Okhla in the national capital to arrest him. In a post on X, Khan said, “ED people have just arrived at my house to arrest me.”

In a self-made video, the AAP MLA said that the investigating agency has 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.

“I am hopeful that the way we got justice in the court earlier, this time too we will get justice. This is a case that is completely fake,” he added.

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AAP leader and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj accused the centre of misusing agencies. “The central government wants all the government departments in Delhi to remain vacant… 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”, he said.

In April this year, the Rouse Avenue Court granted bail to Khan in connection with the Enforcement Directorate’s recent complaint filed against him for alleged non-attendance of the summons in the Delhi Waqf Board money laundering case.

The ED recently moved a complaint against him for not appearing before the agency and not joining the probe in the case related to the alleged irregularities in appointment in Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties. The federal probe agency had alleged that Khan has elevated his role from witness to accused by filing an anticipatory bail plea and running away from the investigation.

The 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 chargesheet has already been filed against four accused persons and one firm.

It has been alleged that Rs 100 crore waqf properties were given on lease illegally. It is also alleged that 32 contractual employees were appointed in the Delhi Waqf Board during the chairmanship of Khan, who flouted the rules. (ANI)