Published By: Pragati Pal
Last Updated: February 19, 2024, 22:47 IST
Khan, the AAP’s Okhla MLA, was not named as an accused within the cost sheet that the ED not too long ago filed. (File Image: PTI)
Special choose Rakesh Syal sought the central probe company’s response by Tuesday, when the courtroom will hear arguments on the appliance that has claimed Khan anticipates being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the case
An area courtroom on Monday issued a discover to the Enforcement Directorate on an software moved by AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, in search of anticipatory bail in a money-laundering case associated to alleged irregularities by the Delhi Waqf Board in hiring employees and leasing property throughout his chairmanship.
Special choose Rakesh Syal sought the central probe company’s response by Tuesday, when the courtroom will hear arguments on the appliance that has claimed Khan anticipates being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the case.
Khan, the AAP’s Okhla MLA, was not named as an accused within the cost sheet that the ED not too long ago filed. The ED has named 5 entities in its prosecution criticism (the ED’s equal of a cost sheet) that included three suspected associates of Khan — Zeeshan Haider, Daud Nasir and Jawed Imam Siddiqui.
The company, after conducting raids on premises linked to Khan and a few others in October, had claimed that the AAP MLA acquired “huge proceeds of crime” in money from unlawful recruitment of employees to the Delhi Waqf Board and invested these for buying immovable property within the identify of his associates.
The searches have been performed within the case associated to unlawful recruitment of employees and illegitimate private features made by the accused by the use of unfairly leasing Waqf Board properties throughout 2018-2022 when Khan was its chairperson, the ED has mentioned.
The money-laundering case stems from a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR and three Delhi Police complaints. The ED alleged that Khan “acquired huge proceeds of crime out of the said criminal activities in cash and this cash amount was invested in purchase of various immovable properties in Delhi in the name of his associates”.
Several “incriminating” materials within the type of bodily and digital proof have been seized throughout the raids, indicating Khan’s involvement within the offence of cash laundering, it has mentioned.
