AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday claimed that a team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) has come to his house in Okhla, Delhi to arrest him. Sources said the ED team was conducting the raid in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of staff for the Delhi Waqf Board. The team was accompanied by Delhi Police and CRPF personnel. Amanatullah Khan claimed that it was an early morning raid. He posted his video on social media. He said, "It is 7 am now and ED officials have come to my house on the pretext of a search warrant to arrest me..." He alleged that the ED was "harassing" him. "For the last two years they have been harassing me by implicating me in false cases, almost every day creating some trouble or the other for me and my entire party.
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ED reached the house of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan and arrested him.
The chief minister has been in jail, Sanjay Singh has been in jail, Satyendra Jain is still in jail and now they want to arrest me. Their only motive is to break us and our party..." Sources said the raids are part of a money laundering probe against the AAP MLA linked to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of staff for the Delhi Waqf Board. The raids are being conducted under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Reacting to Amanatullah Khan's post, AAP leader Manish Sisodia attacked the BJP and the ED. Sisodia said, "ED has only one job left: suppress every voice raised against the BJP. Break it. Those who do not break or surrender, arrest and put in jail."
AAP MP Sanjay Singh criticised the ED for being "ruthless". "Look at the cruelty of ED. Amanatullah Khan first fled the ED investigation and asked for more time due to his mother-in-law's cancer and recent surgery. Despite this, they raided his house early in the morning. There is no evidence against Amanatullah Khan, but both Modi's dictatorship and ED's hooliganism continue." Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the ED in the case in April and later got bail from Delhi's Rouse Avenue court, which granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 15,000 and a surety of the same amount. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed complaints against him for not appearing before the agency and failing to participate in its investigations related to alleged irregularities in appointments in the Delhi Waqf Board. According to the complaints, Khan allegedly received huge amounts of cash through illegal recruitment of employees in the Delhi Waqf Board and used this money to buy properties in the name of his associates.
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