New Delhi:

Senior AAP leader and MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday claimed that a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reached his house here to arrest him. Sources said the ED team reached his house in Okhla as part of a money laundering investigation.

Delhi Police and Central Reserve Police Force teams have been deployed at Mr Khan’s residence

In a post on X, Amanatullah Khan said, “An ED team has reached my house to arrest me.”

“Early this morning, the ED reached my house,” said Mr Khan, who represents Okhla in the Delhi Assembly.

अभी सुबह-सुबह तानाशाह के इशारे पर उनकी कटपुतली ED मेरे घर पर पहुँच चुकी है, मुझे और AAP नेताओं को परेशान करने में तानाशाह कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ रहा।

ईमानदारी से अवाम की ख़िदमत करना गुनाह है?

आख़िर ये तानाशाही कब तक?#EDRaid#Okhlapic.twitter.com/iR2YN7Z9NL

— Amanatullah Khan AAP (@KhanAmanatullah) September 2, 2024

Several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, hit out at the BJP government at the Centre, saying agencies are targeting those who raised their voices against the ruling party.

In a video on X, Mr Khan also said he has been replying to all the notices being sent by the agency. But a team is here to arrest him on a search warrant, he said.

On X, Sisodia said the only work left for the ED is to “suppress every voice raised against the BJP and break it”. Those who do not break, are arrested and put in jail, he alleged.

Mr Singh claimed that the ED has no evidence against Mr Khan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “dictatorship” and the ED’s “hooliganism” continue, he alleged. 

Noida:

An aide of AAP’s Delhi MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested while non-bailable warrants were issued against the legislator and his son in connection with a case of assault registered here following a quarrel at a petrol pump, police said on Monday.

Iqrar Ahmed (50), who was apprehended near Kalindi Kunj, was not named in the FIR lodged on May 7 at Noida’s Phase 1 police station after an argument broke out between Khan’s son Anas Ahmed and some workers at a petrol pump.

The Delhi lawmaker also got involved later.

Amanatullah Khan, who represents Okhla in Delhi Assembly, was the only named person in the FIR. His son was mentioned as the “unidentified son of MLA Amantullah Khan” while the other accused were identified as “others in two cars”.

“On Monday, with the help of local intelligence and electronic surveillance, accused Iqrar Ahmed, who was wanted in the case lodged at Phase 1 police station, was arrested. He was held near the border of Kalindi Kunj,” a Noida Police spokesperson said.

Amanatullah Khan’s son was accused of jumping the queue for fuel at the petrol pump and later indulging in threatening behaviour and violence. Amanatullah Khan also allegedly threatened the petrol pump workers, according to the FIR.

The Okhla MLA has denied the charges.

“An FIR was lodged at the Phase 1 police station in connection with a case of assault by some people at a petrol pump here. The investigation team has collected evidence in the case.

“The CCTV footage was analysed and statements of witnesses was recorded, and on the basis of that a person – Iqrar Ahmed – was arrested today,” Additional DCP (Noida) Manish Mishra said.

He was produced in a local court here which has sent him to judicial custody, Mishra said.

An investigation against other accused is underway and they will soon face legal proceedings, he said.

“The investigating official in the case had requested the court and non-bailable warrants (NBW) have been issued against people identified as Abu Baqar, Anas and Amantullah. We will soon ensure legal proceedings against them under the strictest laws as per rules,” Mishra said.

The police had initially lodged a case under sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentionally insulting knowing it to be likely that such provocation will break public peace), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 427 (mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Later, sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 452 (tress-passing), 307 (attempt to murder), 394 (causing hurt during robbery) and 34 (act done by several persons with common objective) of the IPC and provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were added to the case.

The police said Iqrar Ahmed, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district, currently lives in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area.

The Noida Police last week visited the AAP MLA’s Delhi home for an inquiry in connection with the case, according to officials. 

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New Delhi:

A day after conducting raids against Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday alleged he acquired “huge proceeds of crime” in the form of cash from illegal recruitment in the Delhi Waqf Board and invested it in purchasing immovable assets in the name of his associates.

The federal agency had on Tuesday raided 13 locations in the national capital linked to the legislator and persons associated with him.

“The searches were conducted in the case related to illegal recruitment of staff in Delhi Waqf Board and illegal personal gains by way of unfairly leasing out of Waqf Board properties during the chairmanship of the Board by Amantullah Khan during 2018-2022,” the agency claimed in a statement.

It said a CBI FIR and three Delhi Police complaints formed the basis of its action against the Aam Aadmi Party MLA.

Amanatullah Khan, the ED said, “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” records and physical and digital evidence were seized during the raids which “indicate” Amanatullah Khan’s role in money laundering, it said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, after Amanatullah Khan met him on Wednesday, alleged there was a campaign underway to end the AAP and asserted that false cases are being filed against party leaders.

The 49-year-old legislator represents the Okhla constituency in the Delhi Assembly.

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New Delhi:

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided the premises of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in Delhi as part of a money-laundering investigation against him and some others, official sources said.

The 49-year-old legislator represents the Okhla constituency in the Delhi Assembly.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) searches are being undertaken under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The federal agency has taken cognisance of a Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau FIR and a Central Bureau of Investigation FIR against the legislator, related to alleged corruption linked to illegal appointments in the Delhi Waqf Board.

Mr Khan is the Delhi Waqf Board chairman.

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